Bushmeat

The lion is known as king of the jungle. Lions commonly found in Africa, from Europe to Iran, and India. Nowadays, lions currently exist in Africa and India. African lions are called as Panthera Leo. Sometime they are called big cats of wild. There is one interesting fact about lion is that “both male and female lions roar, and that roar can be heard over five miles away” (qtd. in “Basic Facts about Lions”). The Tree Life of Web Project states, “Lions belong to the genus Panthera which contains…

wild western gorillas reside, previously inaccessible forest areas have been cut down to create roads for logging trucks. These roads consequentially provide access to high density western gorilla populations which allow humans to kill them for bushmeat, which is the meat of wild African animals and is very popular in the continent, and for “trophy hunting”. A statistic to display the significance of this threat is Gabon experienced an estimated 56% decline in ape abundance from 1983 to 2000…

which Muneza says are believed to be a cure for HIV/AIDS.” Trying to find a cure for aids is just ending the lives of these helpless animals. According to the Huffington Post “This lucrative trade in tails, as well as the poaching of giraffes for bushmeat, has driven some populations of the animal to the brink of extinction.” Poaching is the reason most animals are endangered and poaching is not…

One sad, and very big reason this species is endangered is because of bushmeat. As this primate species is large, and has an electric diet people hunt it for it's meat. Over millions of South Americans eat it per year. Another reason this New World Primate is endangered is because of deforestation. As the human population…

tail, the howler monkey is longer than other types of monkeys. This monkey has a beard in addition to long thick hair which can be either black, brown, or red. Unfortunately, the red howler, which is most common, is often targeted by hunters for bushmeat. “Howlers also boast a prehensile tail. They can use this tail as an extra arm to grip, or even hang from the branches.” The extra “arm” is quite handy because, the howler monkey rarely descends to the ground, in addition they have no pads on…

The blame for the population disappearing lies on commercial and sport hunting for bushmeat. These cute and playful animals are endangered. Humans and chimps are very closely related around 95% of chimp genes are shared with humans. The characteristic chimpanzee shape includes an opposable thumb kind of like humans, long arms that extend…

Writing Assignment #1: Gorilla Growing up, there was one movie that was constantly in the DVR. That movie was Tarzan. Watching it often as I came home from daycare, it was one of the few films my parents bought for my brothers and I to watch. I was fascinated by the idea of a man living with what I thought of at the time as monkeys. Much time has passed since then, and as I grew older, my perspective changed on what I once thought were noble beasts. After watching films like King Kong and…

bolster their efforts to preserve their forest homes. "Chimpanzees are in crisis," said Lilian Pintea, a remote sensing specialist and vice president of conservation science for the Jane Goodall Institute, Vienna, Virginia, citing hunting and illegal bushmeat consumption, disease, illegal capture for the pet trade and habitat loss as the culprits.…

Primates fall under the the class of mammalia and the mirorder of Primatomorpha, which has two suborders: Strepsirrhini and Haplorrhini. The order Primates includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians. These animals are most commonly found in South America Primates have evolved from arboreal animals, so most monkeys live in trees. They are typically found in rainforest, and some can even adapt to human, modified environments. Almost all primates have prehensile hands and feet, and have five…

The question of when the HIV virus originated is often asked, but unanswered. There are three different theories about when the transmission of HIV came about. (Hillis, D.M., 2000) The first theory, called Transmission Early Hypothesis suggests humans contracted HIV in the early 1900’s. This theory goes on to say that a small population of humans had it, but it stayed isolated within this population until the 1930’s when political changes arose in Africa and caused the virus to spread between…