Sentences with phrase «great ape population»

The research also explains why current zoo breeding programs, which have attempted to increase the genetic diversity of captive great ape populations, have resulted in captive ape populations that are genetically dissimilar to their wild counterparts..

Even though early human - like species were present at the same time as the ancestors of some present day great apes, the researchers found that the evolutionary history of ancestral great ape populations was far more complex than that of humans.

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

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Hunting, logging, mining and disease are taking a terrible toll on the greatest of the great apes, and if things continue as they are, they may be reduced to nothing more than a series of small, highly vulnerable populations within decades.

The two Univerity of Washington studies, «Great ape genetic diversity and population history,» published in Nature, and «Evolution and diversity of copy number variation in the great ape lineage,» published in Genome Research, are funded by NIH grant HG002385 and support from the Howard Hughes Medical InstiGreat ape genetic diversity and population history,» published in Nature, and «Evolution and diversity of copy number variation in the great ape lineage,» published in Genome Research, are funded by NIH grant HG002385 and support from the Howard Hughes Medical Instigreat ape lineage,» published in Genome Research, are funded by NIH grant HG002385 and support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

The catalog of great ape genetic diversity, the most comprehensive ever, elucidates the evolution and population histories of great apes from Africa and Indonesia.

Vogel says if the orangutan population is to increase, conservationists must know which habitats will enable these great apes to thrive and reproduce successfully.

«Central African governments have demonstrated increased willingness to protect the dwindling populations of gorillas and chimpanzees,» said David Greer, WWF's Great Apes Programme Manager.

Analysis of great ape genetic diversity is likely to reveal ways that natural selection, population growth and collapse, geographic isolation and migration, climate and geological changes, and other factors shaped primate evolution.

Great - ape watchers may have become accustomed to reading about habitat loss and population declines, and indeed, researchers have previously engaged in a range of site - specific efforts and landscape surveys aimed at assessing the decline of suitable environmental conditions for African great Great - ape watchers may have become accustomed to reading about habitat loss and population declines, and indeed, researchers have previously engaged in a range of site - specific efforts and landscape surveys aimed at assessing the decline of suitable environmental conditions for African great great apes.

The dense forests in the two nations harbor an estimated 80 percent of the world's remaining great apes, whose numbers have plunged elsewhere in Africa as human populations have expanded.

«We initiated the Great Ape Aging Project 20 years ago because we saw an aging chimpanzee population under human care that would need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting aging humans,» said Joseph Erwin, Ph.D., research professor of anthropology at the George Washington University.

Based on population numbers, Tapanuli orangutans may be the most endangered great apes, says Vincent Nijman at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

«We initiated the Great Ape Aging Project 20 years ago because we saw an ageing chimpanzee population under human care that would need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting ageing humans,» said Dr. Joseph Erwin, research professor of anthropology at the George Washington University.

Tomàs Marqués - Bonet, ICREA Research Professor and who has a double affiliation at the CNAG - CRG and the IBE says: «After almost ten years observing the genetic population of the great apes, it is always surprising to find new populations unique and isolated from the rest.»

«Surprisingly, this population of cells is also present in macaques and several other primate species that are not among the non-human African great apes,» Sestan told Seeker.

To its great credit, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes focuses predominantly on the ape population and the human characters exist here on the sidelines.

The survey, which was conducted by the Great Ape Trust and will be published this month in the journal Oryx, alarmed researchers because it showed that orangutan populations have plummeted in just the last few years.

The mountain gorillas is the only one of the nine subspecies of African great apes experiencing a population increase.