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Top 5 Most Endangered Primates

75% of primates declining, 60% near extinction. Urgent conservation needed to prevent extinction.

Endangered Primates

1000 left, endangered by humans, dams, starvation, parasites, and hunting.

Tana River Red Colobus

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Pongo tapanuliensis: rare great ape, threatened by hunting, habitat loss, mining, dams, and human conflict.

Tapanuli Orangutan

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Hoolock tian xing: black males, buffy brown females with white eyebrows. Threatened by hunting, deforestation, and habitat loss.

Gaoligong Hoolock Gibbon

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300 left, endangered by grazing, habitat loss, and deforestation.

Ecuadorian White-Fronted Capuchin

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Bemanasy mouse lemur is a larger mouse lemur species in Southeastern Madagascar, critically endangered due to habitat loss.

Bemanasy Mouse Lemur

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