Primates in the Santa Ana Zoo
12-12-13
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Zoo Project My initial thoughts about going having to go to the zoo for this project was that it was going to be challenging yet fun, Challenging in the sense that with my post traumatic stress disorder from the military because I have trouble being around crowds of people which is why I supposed that is why I chose to go to the Santa Ana zoo since I knew that there would be less people there, Fun in the sense that I have not been to a zoo since I was a little kid which made me excited to not only see the primate exhibit for this project but to also check out some of the other animals that were at the zoo.
The taxonomic classification of the primate that I observed at the Santa Ana zoo was the Crested Capuchin or (Cebus paella robustus), Family: Cebidae. It is a new world monkey
The Capuchin can be found in the atlantic rainforests east of Brazil between the Doce and Jequitinhonha rivers in Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais and Bahia. The Capuchin have also been known to be found in dry semi deciduous forest west of where they are normally found, and they like the lower to middle parts of the rainforest canopy. The conservation status of this species as of today is they are listed as an endangered species since 2003, the reason being for the capuchin being an endangered species is that they face destruction of their natural habitat in brazil because brazils economy has a high demand for coffee, eucalyptus, pine plantations, high cattle and agricultural crops which means the forest in which the capuchin inhabit is cleared out, because of this there is only about nine percent undamaged forest remaining in brazil for the capuchin, the capuchin are also hunted by the locals which is causing the population to decrease at a rapid rate. In 1992 the committee for the atlantic forest capuchin monkeys was created to protect and conserve them along with other species of monkeys, there are protected areas of the capuchin throughout brazil, the Linhares forest
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Zoo Project My initial thoughts about going having to go to the zoo for this project was that it was going to be challenging yet fun, Challenging in the sense that with my post traumatic stress disorder from the military because I have trouble being around crowds of people which is why I supposed that is why I chose to go to the Santa Ana zoo since I knew that there would be less people there, Fun in the sense that I have not been to a zoo since I was a little kid which made me excited to not only see the primate exhibit for this project but to also check out some of the other animals that were at the zoo.
The taxonomic classification of the primate that I observed at the Santa Ana zoo was the Crested Capuchin or (Cebus paella robustus), Family: Cebidae. It is a new world monkey
The Capuchin can be found in the atlantic rainforests east of Brazil between the Doce and Jequitinhonha rivers in Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais and Bahia. The Capuchin have also been known to be found in dry semi deciduous forest west of where they are normally found, and they like the lower to middle parts of the rainforest canopy. The conservation status of this species as of today is they are listed as an endangered species since 2003, the reason being for the capuchin being an endangered species is that they face destruction of their natural habitat in brazil because brazils economy has a high demand for coffee, eucalyptus, pine plantations, high cattle and agricultural crops which means the forest in which the capuchin inhabit is cleared out, because of this there is only about nine percent undamaged forest remaining in brazil for the capuchin, the capuchin are also hunted by the locals which is causing the population to decrease at a rapid rate. In 1992 the committee for the atlantic forest capuchin monkeys was created to protect and conserve them along with other species of monkeys, there are protected areas of the capuchin throughout brazil, the Linhares forest