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Primates

This gallery features photographs of primates, some of our closest relatives in the animal world, from various different countries.

Mountain gorilla; Virunga National Park, DRC, Endangered species
Adolescent male mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei ssp. beringei), Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Mother and baby crab-eating or long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), Railay, near Krabi, Thailand.
Mother and baby crab-eating or long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), Railay, near Krabi, Thailand.
Male crab-eating macaque or long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) baring its teeth and scratching itself, on limestone rock cliff, Tha Lane Bay, Thailand.
Male crab-eating macaque or long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) baring its teeth and scratching itself, on limestone rock cliff, Tha Lane Bay, Thailand.
Male proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Male proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) leaping between trees, Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) leaping between trees, Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Male proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) in a tree, Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Male proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) in a tree, Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) eating flowers in a tree in lowland tropical rainforest on the banks of the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) eating flowers in a tree in lowland tropical rainforest on the banks of the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) mating
Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) mating in lowland tropical rainforest near the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Family group of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in a tree
Family group of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in a tree in lowland tropical rainforest near the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus) backlit in a tree beside the Kinabatangan River copy
Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus) backlit in a tree beside the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), female grooming a male copy
Female long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) grooming a male in lowland tropical rainforest beside the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Japanese macaques or snow monkeys (Macaca fuscata) at hot springs pool copy
Japanese macaques or snow monkeys (Macaca fuscata) at hot springs pool, Jigokudani, Nagano, Japan.
Japanese macaque or snow monkey (Macaca fuscata) drinking from hot springs pool copy
Japanese macaque or snow monkey (Macaca fuscata) drinking from a hot springs pool, Jigokudani, Nagano, Japan.
Yakushima macaque (Macaca fuscata yakui) at the base of a tree in subtropical rainforest, Yakushima NP copy
Yakushima macaque (Macaca fuscata yakui) at the base of a tree in subtropical rainforest, Yakushima National Park, Yakushima Island, Japan.
Male Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) grooming a female, Ifrane National Park, Morocco.
Male Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) grooming a female, Ifrane National Park, Morocco.
Diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema diadema) in a tree copy
Diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema diadema) in a tree (Symphonia tanalensis), Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar
Eastern woolly lemurs (Avahi laniger) roosting in a tree
Eastern woolly lemurs (Avahi laniger) roosting in a tree, Andasibe Mantadia National Park, Madagascar
Greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) on bamboo in lowland tropical rainforest, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
Greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) on bamboo in lowland tropical rainforest, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
Indri (Indri indri) in a tree in tropical rainforest, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar
Indri (Indri indri) in a tree in tropical rainforest, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar
Red-fronted brown lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons) in the upper branches of a tree in lowland tropical rainforest
Red-fronted brown lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons) in the upper branches of a tree in lowland tropical rainforest, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
Red-fronted lemur (Eulemur fulvus rufus) copy
Red-fronted lemur (Eulemur fulvus rufus) on the branch of a tree, Kirindy Forest, Madagascar.
Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) copy
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) in a tree, Kirindy Forest, Madagascar.
Pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) in lowland tropical rainforest, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
Pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) in lowland tropical rainforest, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
Female pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) in lowland tropical rainforest, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
Female pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) in lowland tropical rainforest, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
Western tarsier (Cephalopachus bancanus) in tree at night copy
Western tarsier (Cephalopachus bancanus) in a tree at night in lowland tropical rainforest, Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Capuchin monkeys; grooming; Peru; primates; cloud forest; Cebus apella
Brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) grooming in cloud forest at 1,600 metres in Kosñipata Valley, near Manu National Park, Peru.
White-handed gibbon; lar gibbon; primate; endangered species; rainforest; Thailand
White-handed or lar gibbons (Hylobates lar), female and baby in a tree in lowland tropical rainforest, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.

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Did you know that more than 50,000 woolly mammoth teeth have been dredged from the bed of the North Sea? And Doggerland was just one portion of the mammoth super highway. Photo: Mercury Press & Media #IceAgeEcosystems

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While the headline uses the word 'populations' to describe fish, the article itself still uses the word 'stocks', which implies that fish are just a commodity for humans to exploit. Fish are free-living wild animals, not some stock item in a supermarket.
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Maybe this can be a first step in finally acknowledging the wisdom & rights of native peoples, in the USA & other countries. "It aligns Indigenous environmental knowledge with presidential priorities that benefit everyone,” said Faith Spotted Eagle.
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