Essay About Silky Sifaka
It is a beautiful morning. The sun shines brightly into my face. I can feel the dews in the leaves and the coolness of the early breeze high up in my sleeping tree. My siblings are now eating their morning snacks while I sat here watching them have fun and fill their bellies. They seem to enjoy themselves very well. By the way, my name is Creamy. I am about four years old. I am a Silky Sifaka, a kind of lemur which is one of the three rarest in the world (Patel, n,d). That means, my family is special and is endemic only to Madagascar. They said we have this scientific name which is Propithecus candidus (IUCN Red list, 2010). Weird, right?
We live here in the tropical, moist, and protected forests of Madagascar, a country with a very rich …show more content…
The generation length of silky sifakas is up to 15 years (IUCN Red list, 2010). What if we will all be dead in just a couple of years? I will never have the chance to experience more things and be an adult sifaka. I will never have kids, with my silky crush as the father of my babies that would continue our family up to many more generations, and make our population grow. I will never have the chance to taste a hundred more kinds of seeds, fruits, and leaves. I will never have the chance to scent-mark all trees in this forest. I will never have the chance to let out more shee-fak and zzuss calls to communicate with other silkies. I will never have the chance to vertical cling and leap in all different trees around the forest. I will never have the chance to be an extrovert and not be aloof to the people in the forest – because by the time that I have decided to be one, people are not as greedy as they are today.
If humans would just give me and my family the chance to live a blissful and peaceful life, without them intruding in our daily lives. If they can just give us the opportunity to be creamy and happy in these forests of Madagascar. If they can stop killing animals for money especially those that are endangered like my species. If they only know how important we are in the ecosystem too. If they had stopped being anthropocentric enough. Then, the world would be a place so much better to be lived.
We live here in the tropical, moist, and protected forests of Madagascar, a country with a very rich …show more content…
The generation length of silky sifakas is up to 15 years (IUCN Red list, 2010). What if we will all be dead in just a couple of years? I will never have the chance to experience more things and be an adult sifaka. I will never have kids, with my silky crush as the father of my babies that would continue our family up to many more generations, and make our population grow. I will never have the chance to taste a hundred more kinds of seeds, fruits, and leaves. I will never have the chance to scent-mark all trees in this forest. I will never have the chance to let out more shee-fak and zzuss calls to communicate with other silkies. I will never have the chance to vertical cling and leap in all different trees around the forest. I will never have the chance to be an extrovert and not be aloof to the people in the forest – because by the time that I have decided to be one, people are not as greedy as they are today.
If humans would just give me and my family the chance to live a blissful and peaceful life, without them intruding in our daily lives. If they can just give us the opportunity to be creamy and happy in these forests of Madagascar. If they can stop killing animals for money especially those that are endangered like my species. If they only know how important we are in the ecosystem too. If they had stopped being anthropocentric enough. Then, the world would be a place so much better to be lived.