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To: ravenseye who wrote (4738)10/25/2007 4:13:33 PM
From: StockDung  Read Replies (1) of 5673
 
Monkeys, apes teetering on brink of extinction
Thu Oct 25 2007 07:13:31 ET

Mankind's closest relatives are teetering on the brink of their first extinctions in more than a century, it will be claimed this weekend.

Endangered primates are being hunted by humans for food and medicine and squeezed from forest homes.

There are just a few dozen of the most threatened gibbons and langurs left, and one colobus may already have gone the way of the dodo, warns the report on the 25 most vulnerable primates.

"You could fit all the surviving members of these 25 species in a single football stadium -- that's how few of them remain on earth today," said Russell Mittermeier, president of U.S.-based environmental group Conservation International.

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