Vegan FTA<p>6 Amazing Facts About Pigs That’ll Make You Love Them Even More 🐷✨
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Vegan FTA<p>If cows can show this much care and respect for another creature, shouldn’t we extend the same compassion to them? ❤️🐄🐢
👉 Take the Vegan Pledge: <a href="https://drove.com/.2A4o" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://drove.com/.2A4o</a> 🌱
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Vegan FTA<p>The Alice Sanctuary describes just how amazing pigs truly are! 🐷❤️
👉 Learn more about these amazing animals in our new short film The Hidden Lives of Pigs: <a href="http://hiddenlivesofanimals.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://hiddenlivesofanimals.com</a> 📺
🎥: thealicesanctuary (IG)
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Vegan FTA<p>Take a moment to watch rescued elephant Vana playing in the soil. 🥹🐘
👉 Want to Help Animals? Get Involved and Take Action: <a href="https://veganfta.com/take-action" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://veganfta.com/take-action</a> 🌎
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Palm Oil Detectives<p><strong>Amphibians Glow in Ways People Can’t See</strong></p><blockquote><p>Many animals have a colourful, yet largely hidden, trait. Marine <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/31/forest-rainbowfish-melanotaenia-sylvatica/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">creatures like #fish</a> and corals can glow blue, green or red under certain types of light. So can land animals like penguins and <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/parrots/" target="_blank">#parrots</a>. But until now, experts knew of only one salamander and a few <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/frogs/" target="_blank">#frogs</a> that could glow. No longer. Among <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/amphibians/" target="_blank">#amphibians</a>, this ability to glow now appears fairly common — even if you can’t see it. Research has found that most amphibians glow as well – even if it’s not visible to human eyes. Protect amphibians and reptiles every time you shop and <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycottpalmoil/" target="_blank">#Boycottpalmoil</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a></p></blockquote> <p class="">DYK not only <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/fish/" target="_blank">#fish</a> or <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/insects/" target="_blank">#insects</a> glow 🐟🐠🐛🦋? <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/research/" target="_blank">#Research</a> has found that amphibians glow as well – even if it’s not visible to human eyes 🌈🌟🎇 Protect <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/amphibians/" target="_blank">#amphibians</a> and <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/reptiles/" target="_blank">#reptiles</a> every time you shop and <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycottpalmoil/" target="_blank">#Boycottpalmoil</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a> @palmoildetect <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/06/30/blue-and-uv-light-makes-many-amphibians-glow-in-ways-that-people-cant-normally-see/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/06/30/blue-and-uv-light-makes-many-amphibians-glow-in-ways-that-people-cant-normally-see/</a></p> <a class="" href="https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=DYK%20not%20only%20%23fish%20or%20%23insects%20glow%20%F0%9F%90%9F%F0%9F%90%A0%F0%9F%90%9B%F0%9F%A6%8B%3F%20%23Research%20has%20found%20that%20amphibians%20glow%20as%20well%20-%20even%20if%20it's%20not%20visible%20to%20human%20eyes%20%F0%9F%8C%88%F0%9F%8C%9F%F0%9F%8E%87%20Protect%20%23amphibians%20and%20%23reptiles%20every%20time%20you%20shop%20and%20%23Boycottpalmoil%20%23Boycott4Wildlife%20%20%40palmoildetect.bsky.social%20%20https%3A%2F%2Fpalmoildetectives.com%2F2024%2F06%2F30%2Fblue-and-uv-light-makes-many-amphibians-glow-in-ways-that-people-cant-normally-see%2F%20%20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Share to BlueSky</a> <a class="" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=DYK%20not%20only%20%23fish%20or%20%23insects%20glow%20%F0%9F%90%9F%F0%9F%90%A0%F0%9F%90%9B%F0%9F%A6%8B%3F%20%23Research%20has%20found%20that%20amphibians%20glow%20as%20well%20-%20even%20if%20it's%20not%20visible%20to%20human%20eyes%20%F0%9F%8C%88%F0%9F%8C%9F%F0%9F%8E%87%20Protect%20%23amphibians%20and%20%23reptiles%20every%20time%20you%20shop%20and%20%23Boycottpalmoil%20%23Boycott4Wildlife%20%40palmoildetect%20https%3A%2F%2Fpalmoildetectives.com%2F2024%2F06%2F30%2Fblue-and-uv-light-makes-many-amphibians-glow-in-ways-that-people-cant-normally-see%2F&url=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Share to Twitter</a> <p class=""><strong>Written by <a href="https://www.snexplores.org/author/erin-garcia-de-jesus" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Erin Garcia de Jesús</a> for Science News Explores under creative commons licence. <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.snexplores.org/article/glowing-frogs-salamanders-uv-blue-light" target="_blank">Read the original article here</a>.</strong></p><blockquote><p>The glow is produced through a process is <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/03/20/harlequin-poison-frog-oophaga-histrionica/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">known as fluorescence</a>. A body absorbs shorter (higher energy) wavelengths of light. Almost immediately, it then re-emits that light, but now at longer (lower energy) wavelengths. People can’t see this glow, however, because our eyes aren’t sensitive enough to see the small amount of light given off in natural light.</p></blockquote><a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/03/20/harlequin-poison-frog-oophaga-histrionica/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Blue poison dart frogs</a> by Aleksei Stemmer for Getty Images<p>Jennifer Lamb and Matthew Davis are biologists at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. They shone blue or ultraviolet light on 32 species of amphibians. Most were salamanders and frogs. Some were adults. Others were younger. One animal was <a href="https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/caecilians-other-amphibian" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a wormlike amphibian known as a caecilian</a> (Seh-SEEL-yun).</p><p>The researchers found some of the creatures in their natural habitats. Others came from places like the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Ill. (There, the pair were allowed to “come into the exhibit after dark and basically run through their exhibit,” Davis notes.)</p><a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/03/20/harlequin-poison-frog-oophaga-histrionica/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Blue poison dart frog </a>by Zoological Consult for Getty Images<a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/25/bornean-rainbow-toad-ansonia-latidisca/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Forest Rainbowfish Melanotaenia sylvatica</a><p></p><p><strong>Research shows that biofluorescence is widespread and common not only among fish amongst amphibians</strong></p><p>To the researchers’ surprise, all the animals they tested glowed in brilliant colors. Some were green. The glow from others was more yellow. The colors glowed most strongly under blue light. Until now, scientists had seen such fluorescence only in marine turtles. The new finding suggests that this biofluorescence is widespread among amphibians.</p><p>The researchers <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-59528-9" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reported their findings</a> February 27 in <em>Scientific Reports</em>.</p>Red Eyed Tree Frog by Getty Images<p>Which parts of an animal glow differ with the species, Lamb and Davis found. Yellow spots on the eastern tiger salamander (<em>Ambystoma tigrinum</em>) glow green under blue light. But in the marbled salamander (<em>A. opacum</em>), the bones and parts of its underside light up.</p><a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/05/malayan-forest-gecko-cyrtodactylus-pulchellus/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Malayan Forest Gecko Cyrtodactylus pulchellus close up of face</a><p>The researchers didn’t test what these <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/11/12/philippine-sailfin-lizard-hydrosaurus-pustulatus/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">amphibians use to glow</a>. But they suspect the animals rely on fluorescent proteins or the pigments in some cells. If there are multiple ways they fluoresce, that would hint that the ability to glow evolved independently in different species. If not, the ancient ancestor of modern amphibians may have passed one trait on to species that are alive today. </p><a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/25/bornean-rainbow-toad-ansonia-latidisca/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bornean Rainbow Toad Ansonia latidisca </a><p>Fluorescence may help salamanders and frogs find one another in low light. In fact, their eyes contain cells that are especially sensitive to green or blue light.</p><blockquote><p>One day, scientists might also harness the amphibians’ ability to glow. They could use special lights to search for the animals to survey their presence in the wild. That might help them see creatures that blend into their surroundings or hide in piles of leaves.</p></blockquote><p class=""><a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/03/20/harlequin-poison-frog-oophaga-histrionica/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Blue poison dart frog </a>by Zoological Consult for Getty Images</p> <p><strong>Take Action in Five Ways</strong></p><p><strong>1. 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A #SteadyState Economy</a></strong></p><p><a class="" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/01/16/steady-state-economics/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Read more </a></p> <p></p> <p><strong>3. Supermarket sleuthing:</strong> Next time you’re in the supermarket, take photos of products containing palm oil. Share these to social media along with the hashtags to call out the greenwashing and ecocide of the brands who use palm oil. You can also take photos of palm oil free products and congratulate brands when they go palm oil free.</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/CuriousApe4/status/1526136783557529600?s=20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/CuriousApe4/status/1526136783557529600?s=20</a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/PhillDixon1/status/1749010345555788144?s=20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/PhillDixon1/status/1749010345555788144?s=20</a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/mugabe139/status/1678027567977078784?s=20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/mugabe139/status/1678027567977078784?s=20</a></p> <p><strong>4. Take to the streets:</strong> Get in touch with Palm Oil Detectives to find out more.</p><p><strong>5. Donate: </strong>Make a one-off or monthly donation to Palm Oil Detectives as a way of saying thank you and to help pay for ongoing running costs of the website and social media campaigns. <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://ko-fi.com/palmoildetectives" target="_blank">Donate here</a></p> <a class="" href="https://ko-fi.com/palmoildetectives" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Pledge your support</a> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/amazing-animals/" target="_blank">#amazingAnimals</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/amphibian/" target="_blank">#Amphibian</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/amphibians/" target="_blank">#amphibians</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/animal-communication/" target="_blank">#animalCommunication</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/animal-rights/" target="_blank">#animalRights</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/biodiversity/" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/bioluminescence/" target="_blank">#bioluminescence</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/bornean-rainbow-toad-ansonia-latidisca/" target="_blank">#BorneanRainbowToadAnsoniaLatidisca</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4wildlife</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycottpalmoil/" target="_blank">#BoycottPalmOil</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/deforestation/" target="_blank">#deforestation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/extinction/" target="_blank">#extinction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/fish/" target="_blank">#fish</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/forest-rainbowfish-melanotaenia-sylvatica/" target="_blank">#ForestRainbowfishMelanotaeniaSylvatica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/forgotten-animals/" target="_blank">#ForgottenAnimals</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/frog/" target="_blank">#Frog</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/frogs/" target="_blank">#Frogs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/glassfrog/" target="_blank">#GlassFrog</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/insects/" target="_blank">#insects</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/palm-oil/" target="_blank">#PalmOil</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/palm-oil-deforestation/" target="_blank">#palmOilDeforestation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/parrots/" target="_blank">#Parrots</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/reptiles/" target="_blank">#reptiles</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/research/" target="_blank">#research</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/savages-glass-frog-centrolene-savagei/" target="_blank">#SavageSGlassFrogCentroleneSavagei</a></p>
Project Seahorse<p>Look at this incredible photo of a big belly <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/seahorse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seahorse</span></a> submitted to our <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/iSeahorse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iSeahorse</span></a> project, on iNaturalist.org. Notice the amazing red and yellow colouring. 🤩 </p><p>Looks like a <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/dragon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dragon</span></a> 😉 </p><p>Thank you to Luca Davenport-Thomas for submitting this. </p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/fishyfriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fishyfriday</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/fishyfriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fishyfriday</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/UnderwaterPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnderwaterPhotography</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/CitizenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CitizenScience</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/CommunityScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityScience</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/oceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oceans</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/hippocampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hippocampus</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marine</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/diving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diving</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AmazingAnimals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazingAnimals</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/marinelife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marinelife</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/scuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scuba</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/underwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>underwater</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/RedList" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedList</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/OceanOptimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceanOptimism</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EndangeredSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndangeredSpecies</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Syngnathids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syngnathids</span></a></p>
tallship<p>Brave Little Dog Scares Off Moose!</p><p><a href="https://invidious.fdn.fr/shorts/s9VJw0aRPLM?si=XgpyU1UmJqCrUwCy&local=true" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">invidious.fdn.fr/shorts/s9VJw0</span><span class="invisible">aRPLM?si=XgpyU1UmJqCrUwCy&local=true</span></a></p><p>> "Get off my lawn!!!" 🤣💥🐶 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dogs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Moose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moose</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmazingAnimals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazingAnimals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PetParents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetParents</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> ✨💕🐶❤️✨ </p><p>A testament to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/altruistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>altruistic</span></a> nature of a dog's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>love</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/duty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>duty</span></a> towards <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>family</span></a> members of their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pack</span></a>.</p><p>It matters not how large or small, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dogs</span></a> are naturally protective of those for whom they most care for.</p><p>I am glad, however, that the man had the wherewithal to call off his dog 🐕 and save his life too.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tallship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tallship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moose</span></a> 🫎</p><p>⛵</p><p>.</p>
Pankhurst2<p>BBC News - How beavers are reviving wetlands<br><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64502365" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/science-environ</span><span class="invisible">ment-64502365</span></a></p><p>Animals save us from us.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmazingAnimals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazingAnimals</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KindnessMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KindnessMatters</span></a></p>
Raimondas LapinskasAt almost 20 meters long, the whale shark is the largest fish in the world and, to the fishermen in the Southern Asian seas, one of the most prized in the ocean - but not because they want to catch it.<br><br>Subscribe: http://bit. <br><a href="https://ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=wX20GDCWMpo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Whale Sharks Form Unlikely Friendship with Fishermen | 4K UHD | Seven Worlds One Planet | BBC Earth</a><br>
Georgivs<p>I was sitting on the sofa reading a book and a rather large random kanga just decided to wander over and have a bit of a lie-down at the back door...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/atlantium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atlantium</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/micronation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>micronation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>australia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/kangaroo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kangaroo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/countrylife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>countrylife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/rural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rural</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/amazinganimals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amazinganimals</span></a></p>
Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁<p>Face to Face | Stripes to Stripes | Beautiful Isn't?<br>.<br>.<br>🦓 Masai Mara| Kenya<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br><a href="https://toot.community/tags/zebra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zebra</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/masaimara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>masaimara</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/bownaankamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bownaankamal</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/yourshotphotographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yourshotphotographer</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wildlifeshots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlifeshots</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wildlifediaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlifediaries</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wildlifephotographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlifephotographer</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wildafrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildafrica</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/masaimaranationalpark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>masaimaranationalpark</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/africananimals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>africananimals</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/equestrainlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>equestrainlife</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/natgeoyourshot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>natgeoyourshot</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/amazinganimals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amazinganimals</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ourfotoworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ourfotoworld</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/kenyawildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kenyawildlife</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/bhfyp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bhfyp</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/zebraprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zebraprint</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/masaimarasafari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>masaimarasafari</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/photooftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photooftheday</span></a></p>
Palm Oil Detectives<p><strong>Chimpanzees once helped African rainforests recover from a major collapse</strong></p><blockquote><p>Most people probably think that the rainforest of central and west Africa, the second largest in the world, has been around for millions of years. However recent research suggests that it is mostly <a href="https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bJrP_KzR0AIh4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">just 2,000 or so years old</a>. The forest reached roughly its modern state following five centuries of regeneration after it was massively fragmented when the dry season suddenly became longer some 2,500 years ago. Help <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/chimpanzees/" target="_blank">#chimpanzees</a> to survive and <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycottpalmoil/" target="_blank">#Boycottpalmoil</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a> every time you shop</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://youtu.be/aY3XduaOZ2Q" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/aY3XduaOZ2Q</a></p> <p>Interesting fact: Seed dispersers like <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/chimpanzees/" target="_blank">#chimpanzees</a> in the <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/congo/" target="_blank">#Congo</a> kicked off rainforest growth only 2000 years ago 🦍🙉🩷 Now they face <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/extinction/" target="_blank">#extinction</a> from <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/mining/" target="_blank">#mining</a> WE SAY NO to <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/mining/" target="_blank">#mining</a> in <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/drc/" target="_blank">#DRC</a>! <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycottpalmoil/" target="_blank">#Boycottpalmoil</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a> @palmoildetect <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/07/03/chimpanzees-once-helped-african-rainforests-recover-from-a-major-collapse/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/07/03/chimpanzees-once-helped-african-rainforests-recover-from-a-major-collapse/</a></p> <a class="" href="https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=Interesting%20fact%3A%20Seed%20dispersers%20like%20%23chimpanzees%20in%20the%20%23Congo%20kicked%20off%20rainforest%20growth%20only%202000%20years%20ago%20%F0%9F%A6%8D%F0%9F%99%89%F0%9F%A9%B7%20Now%20they%20face%20%23extinction%20from%20%23mining%20WE%20SAY%20NO%20to%20%23mining%20in%20%23DRC!%20%23Boycottpalmoil%20%23Boycott4Wildlife%20%40palmoildetect.bsky.social%20%20https%3A%2F%2Fpalmoildetectives.com%2F2022%2F07%2F03%2Fchimpanzees-once-helped-african-rainforests-recover-from-a-major-collapse%2F%20%20%20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Share to BlueSky</a> <a class="" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Interesting%20fact%3A%20Seed%20dispersers%20like%20%23chimpanzees%20in%20the%20%23Congo%20kicked%20off%20rainforest%20growth%20only%202000%20years%20ago%20%F0%9F%A6%8D%F0%9F%99%89%F0%9F%A9%B7%20Now%20they%20face%20%23extinction%20from%20%23mining%20WE%20SAY%20NO%20to%20%23mining%20in%20%23DRC!%20%23Boycottpalmoil%20%23Boycott4Wildlife%20%40palmoildetect%20https%3A%2F%2Fpalmoildetectives.com%2F2022%2F07%2F03%2Fchimpanzees-once-helped-african-rainforests-recover-from-a-major-collapse%2F&url=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Share to Twitter</a> <p>Weird fact: DRC <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/congo/" target="_blank">#Congo</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/rainforests/" target="_blank">#rainforests</a> are not ancient. Just 2000 years ago <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/chimpanzees/" target="_blank">#chimpanzees</a> and other seed dispersers led to rainforest growth. Now – we MUST protect them from <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/mining/" target="_blank">#mining</a> and <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/palmoil/" target="_blank">#palmoil</a>! <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycottpalmoil/" target="_blank">#Boycottpalmoil</a> 🌴🩸🔥💀❌ <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a> @palmoildetect <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/07/03/chimpanzees-once-helped-african-rainforests-recover-from-a-major-collapse/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/07/03/chimpanzees-once-helped-african-rainforests-recover-from-a-major-collapse/</a></p> <a class="" href="https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=Weird%20fact%3A%20DRC%20%23Congo%20%23rainforests%20are%20not%20ancient.%20Just%202000%20years%20ago%20%23chimpanzees%20and%20other%20seed%20dispersers%20led%20to%20rainforest%20growth.%20Now%20-%20we%20MUST%20protect%20them%20from%20%23mining%20and%20%23palmoil!%20%23Boycottpalmoil%20%F0%9F%8C%B4%F0%9F%A9%B8%F0%9F%94%A5%F0%9F%92%80%E2%9D%8C%20%23Boycott4Wildlife%20%40palmoildetect.bsky.social%20%20https%3A%2F%2Fpalmoildetectives.com%2F2022%2F07%2F03%2Fchimpanzees-once-helped-african-rainforests-recover-from-a-major-collapse%2F%20%20%20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Share to BlueSky</a> <a class="" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Weird%20fact%3A%20DRC%20%23Congo%20%23rainforests%20are%20not%20ancient.%20Just%202000%20years%20ago%20%23chimpanzees%20and%20other%20seed%20dispersers%20led%20to%20rainforest%20growth.%20Now%20-%20we%20MUST%20protect%20them%20from%20%23mining%20and%20%23palmoil!%20%23Boycottpalmoil%20%F0%9F%8C%B4%F0%9F%A9%B8%F0%9F%94%A5%F0%9F%92%80%E2%9D%8C%20%23Boycott4Wildlife%20%40palmoildetect%20https%3A%2F%2Fpalmoildetectives.com%2F2022%2F07%2F03%2Fchimpanzees-once-helped-african-rainforests-recover-from-a-major-collapse%2F&url=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Share to Twitter</a> <p>This process was not linked to humans. The forest recovery was instead made possible by seed dispersers including <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/03/13/chimpanzee-pan-troglodytes/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">chimpanzees</a>, which helped spread the slower-growing rainforest tree species. However, dispersers such as chimpanzees are now threatened by deforestation and hunting, often for bushmeat. When combined with climate change, the resilience of the rainforests seems less guaranteed for the future.</p><p>I began thinking about natural processes in African forests back in 1993, when I was with my wife-to-be trying to follow wild chimpanzees next to <a href="https://www.janegoodall.org.uk/our-programmes/gombe-stream-research-centre" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Jane Goodall’s famous group</a> at Gombe, in Tanzania. We were inspired by one of the directors of research at Gombe, <a href="http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/idp/idp/entry/377" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Anthony Collins</a>, who suggested that the chimpanzees might be influencing the composition of the forest for their own nutritional needs, by what fruits they pooed out and where. A kind of “proto gardening”.</p><p>And then unexpectedly I had to leave the chimpanzees after I succeeded in getting a small grant to study past vegetation change using fossilised pollen, but in the Andes.</p><p>A few years later, I found myself giving lectures at Cambridge on human impacts over the past 10,000 years, and suddenly “returning” not only to the tropical rainforests of Africa, but their history. At the time, scientists thought humans were largely responsible for the collapse of the forests from 3,000 years ago.</p> <p>The first few scientific papers I read used the abundance of pollen from the oil palm tree, preserved in the dated layers of lake muds, as an indicator of human activity. The oil palm is the same species <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/09/01/africas-rainforests-are-different-why-it-matters-that-theyre-protected/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">often planted on a massive industrial scale</a> in the tropics today, and since it’s always been an important source of nutrition for people in the region, scientists had assumed it indicated the presence of humans.</p><p>Shortly after, I began working in a <a href="http://www.isem.univ-montp2.fr/fr/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">pollen laboratory</a> in Montpellier in southern France which had a long-term focus on African forest history. There, my simplified view of fossilised oil palm pollen equalling the presence of humans was totally overturned.</p><p>Rainforest history records were being amassed that indicated the near-decimation of rainforests <a href="https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/8672/IDSB_33_1_10.1111-j.1759-5436.2002.tb00003.x.pdf?sequence=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">some 2,500 years ago</a> in the Congo Basin and across a huge expanse stretching from modern-day Senegal to Rwanda. As there was only very limited archaeological evidence of thinly dispersed human populations, humans could not have been responsible for the almost synchronous destruction on such a huge scale.</p><p><strong>Africa hosts the world’s second largest rainforest</strong></p> <a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/348401/original/file-20200720-102864-s7j20.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Tropical rainforests (dark green) still cover much of central and west Africa. Vzb83 / wiki, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CC BY-SA</a> <p>So what did cause these rainforests to collapse? It turns out the answer was not humans, but climate change.</p><p>In a paper recently published in the journal <a href="https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bJrP_KzR0AIh4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Global Planetary Change</a>, my colleagues <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pierre_Giresse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Pierre Giresse</a>, <a href="https://univ-montpellier.academia.edu/JeanMALEY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Jean Maley</a> and I use the many vegetation records available across central and west Africa to show that approximately 2,500 years ago, the length of the dry season increased. Rainforests became highly fragmented, and savanna vegetation – grasses, scattered shrubs and trees – moved in.</p><p>In the centuries that followed, the forests regenerated spontaneously, including with species such as the oil palm. The <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/02/04/the-uks-hunger-for-palm-oil-soy-and-beef-putting-huge-pressure-on-worlds-forests/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">oil palm demands a lot of light</a> and so thrives in open areas or in the gaps created in forests when the canopy opens up rather than in the dense centre. Thus it often acts as a “pioneer species” allowing the forest to regrow.</p><p>But the oil palm’s large seeds are too heavy to be blown in the wind. They therefore need to be dispersed in the poo of animals such as chimpanzees which are able to swallow the large seeds and for whom the bright orange flesh can be an <a href="https://bioone.org/journals/AMBIO-A-Journal-of-the-Human-Environment/volume-35/issue-3/0044-7447(2006)35%255b124:TIOLTR%255d2.0.CO%3B2/The-Importance-of-Local-Tree-Resources-around-Gombe-National-Park/10.1579/0044-7447(2006)35%255b124:TIOLTR%255d2.0.CO%3B2.short" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">important part of the diet</a>. And this is how chimps and other seed-dispersers played a crucial role in regenerating Africa’s rainforests.</p> <a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/348402/original/file-20200720-18366-bwh3c9.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Oil palm fruit swallowed and deposited in faeces by chimpanzee at Gombe National Park. D Mwacha A Collins / Jane Goodall Institute, Author provided <p><strong>Seed dispersers under threat</strong></p><p>When we began this research, we could not see how relevant it would become during the current pandemic. Now climate change, deforestation and hunting are all heavily impacting those same forests. The bushmeat market is contributing to removing <a href="https://theconversation.com/canary-species-can-sing-songs-that-warn-of-ecosystem-collapse-64138" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">keystone species</a> such as chimpanzees. Without animals to move seeds around – especially the largest and heaviest seeds – the natural composition and regeneration of forests is threatened.</p><p>At the turn of the 20th century there were around 1 million chimpanzees, but today only an estimated <a href="https://www.janegoodall.org.uk/chimpanzees/chimpanzee-central/15-chimpanzees/chimpanzee-central/22-state-of-the-wild-chimpanzee" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">172,000-300,000 remain in the wild</a>. Chimps and other seed-dispersing species provide a valuable service and must be better protected in order to protect the forests themselves, and prevent further unforeseen impacts.</p> <a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/348403/original/file-20200720-31-8pg4f1.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Cusano, an alpha male in Gombe, Tanzania, was among those who died in the 1996 respiratory outbreak. Alex Chepstow-Lusty, Author provided <p>For example, the transmission of diseases to humans has also been <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52529830" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">linked to the bushmeat trade</a>. And transmission is not necessarily one way. In June 1996, three years after my wife and I left the chimps at Mitumba in Gombe National Park, possibly up to half the group died within a few days of a <a href="https://www.academia.edu/15330525/The_importance_of_local_tree_resources_around_Gombe_National_Park_Western_Tanzania_Implications_for_humans_and_chimpanzees._Ambio._35_3_130-135" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">respiratory disease outbreak</a> that was likely transmitted to them by humans.</p><p>Perhaps there is a lot more resilience in these tropical forest ecosystems than we can predict. But without chimpanzees and other animals as dispersers, the emptier forests that may eventually grow back would be a sad replacement. Maybe we need to consider the true value of chimp poo, and those that produce it.</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/alex-chepstow-lusty-1132680" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Alex Chepstow-Lusty</a>, Associate Researcher, Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group, <em><a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-cambridge-1283" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">University of Cambridge</a></em></p><p>This article is republished from <a href="https://theconversation.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/chimpanzees-once-helped-african-rainforests-recover-from-a-major-collapse-142599" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">original article</a>.</p> <p><strong>Boycott the brands causing deforestation for palm oil, soy and meat by joining the <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a> </strong></p> <a class="" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/08/23/why-join-the-boycott4wildlife/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Join the #Boycott4Wildlife </a> <p></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/africa/" target="_blank">#Africa</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/african-news/" target="_blank">#AfricanNews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/amazing-animals/" target="_blank">#amazingAnimals</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/animal-extinction/" target="_blank">#animalExtinction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/ape/" target="_blank">#Ape</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/apes/" target="_blank">#apes</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4wildlife</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlifetweet/" target="_blank">#Boycott4WildlifeTweet</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycottpalmoil/" target="_blank">#BoycottPalmOil</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/chimpanzee-pan-troglodytes/" target="_blank">#ChimpanzeePanTroglodytes</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/chimpanzees/" target="_blank">#Chimpanzees</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/congo/" target="_blank">#Congo</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/critically-endangered-species/" target="_blank">#CriticallyEndangeredSpecies</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/drc/" target="_blank">#DRC</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/extinction/" target="_blank">#extinction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/intelligence/" target="_blank">#intelligence</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/mammal/" target="_blank">#Mammal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/mining/" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/notomining/" target="_blank">#Notomining</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/palmoil/" target="_blank">#palmoil</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/primate/" target="_blank">#Primate</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/primates/" target="_blank">#primates</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/primatology/" target="_blank">#primatology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/rainforests/" target="_blank">#rainforests</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/seed-dispersers/" target="_blank">#SeedDispersers</a></p>
Palm Oil Detectives<p><strong>The Amazonian Royal Flycatcher: A flurry of feathers</strong></p><blockquote><p>The Amazonian Royal Flycatcher is a member of a <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/26/magnificent-bird-of-paradise-cicinnurus-magnificus/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">family of birds</a> called the tyrant flycatchers, which occur throughout North and South America. This is the <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2025/05/04/bateleur-eagle-terathopius-ecaudatus/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">biggest family of birds</a> in the world, with more than 400 species. As the name implies, the majority of tyrant flycatchers are entirely insectivorous (though they do not necessarily specialise in flies), while the ‘tyrant’ part comes from the noisy, aggressively territorial behaviour of some species in the group. Help them to survive every time you shop and <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycottpalmoil/" target="_blank">#BoycottPalmOil</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a>.</p></blockquote><p>This particular member of the tyrant flycatcher family is known as the Amazonian royal flycatcher. The most identifiable feature of this <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/10/20/laughs-cries-and-deception-birds-emotional-lives-are-just-as-complicated-as-ours/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">bird species</a> is that incredible fan of feathers on its head. Both sexes possess them: the male’s, as seen above, typically has fiery orange-red feathers, while the female’s are usually yellow.</p> <p class="">A flurry of vibrant feathers announces the <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/amazon/" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> Flycatcher 🪶🦜🪹🪺 – one of S.America’s most spectacular <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/birds/" target="_blank">#birds</a> and a key seed disperser growing forests for everyone. Help them survive! @palmoildetect <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycottpalmoil/" target="_blank">#BoycottPalmOil</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycottgold/" target="_blank">#BoycottGold</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a> <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/11/17/the-amazonian-royal-flycatcher-a-flurry-of-feathers/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/11/17/the-amazonian-royal-flycatcher-a-flurry-of-feathers/</a></p> <a class="" href="https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=A%20flurry%20of%20vibrant%20feathers%20announces%20the%20%23Amazon%20Flycatcher%20%F0%9F%AA%B6%F0%9F%A6%9C%F0%9F%AA%B9%F0%9F%AA%BA%20-%20one%20of%20S.America's%20most%20spectacular%20%23birds%20and%20a%20key%20seed%20disperser%20growing%20forests%20for%20everyone.%20Help%20them%20survive!%20%23BoycottPalmOil%20%23BoycottGold%20%23Boycott4Wildlife%20%40palmoildetect.bsky.social%20%20https%3A%2F%2Fpalmoildetectives.com%2F2021%2F11%2F17%2Fthe-amazonian-royal-flycatcher-a-flurry-of-feathers%2F%20%20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Share to BlueSky</a> <a class="" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=A%20flurry%20of%20vibrant%20feathers%20announces%20the%20%23Amazon%20Flycatcher%20%F0%9F%AA%B6%F0%9F%A6%9C%F0%9F%AA%B9%F0%9F%AA%BA%20-%20one%20of%20S.America's%20most%20spectacular%20%23birds%20and%20a%20key%20seed%20disperser%20growing%20forests%20for%20everyone.%20Help%20them%20survive!%20%40palmoildetect%20%23BoycottPalmOil%20%23BoycottGold%20%23Boycott4Wildlife%20https%3A%2F%2Fpalmoildetectives.com%2F2021%2F11%2F17%2Fthe-amazonian-royal-flycatcher-a-flurry-of-feathers%2F&url=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Share to Twitter</a> <p>Most of the time, though, Amazonian royal flycatchers keeps their crest flat on their heads. When concealed like this, the flycatcher looks like an ordinary brown <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/05/01/the-mimics-among-us-birds-pirate-songs-for-personal-profit/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">little bird</a>. Only when it is displaying or behaving aggressively – such as when it is handled by humans – does the bird’s crown unfurl, revealing that spectacular semi-circle of elongated feathers. The effect is enhanced even more when the flycatcher sways its head and slowly opens and closes its bill to reveal a bright orange mouth.</p><p><a class="" href="https://mongabay.libsyn.com/palm-oil-plantations-and-their-many-impacts-have-arrived-in-the-amazon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://mongabay.libsyn.com/palm-oil-plantations-and-their-many-impacts-have-arrived-in-the-amazon</a></p> <span class=""></span><p></p> <p><strong>How can I help the <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a>?</strong></p> <p><strong>Take Action in Five Ways</strong></p><p><strong>1. 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Palm Oil Detectives<p><strong>What’s my name? How wild parrots identify their young</strong></p><blockquote><p>Ground-breaking research has found that <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/04/05/rainbow-cliffs-why-parrots-in-the-amazon-eat-clay/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wild parrots teach their chicks </a>unique sound signatures so that they can identify their parents. We are only just scratching the surface of knowledge about these immensely intelligent non-human beings, protect them! Be <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/vegan/" target="_blank">#Vegan</a> and <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/11/palm-oil-free-brands/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife</a></p></blockquote> <p class="">It’s not just humans and <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/dolphins/" target="_blank">#dolphins</a> who use unique sounds 🔊🪇🎶 to connect with their young. <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/birds/" target="_blank">#Birds</a> like <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/parrots/" target="_blank">#parrots</a> also teach their chicks unique sounds so that they can identify their mothers 🦜🎵🥁🦜 <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a> to protect them! @palmoildetect <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/05/19/whats-my-name-how-wild-parrots-identify-their-young/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/05/19/whats-my-name-how-wild-parrots-identify-their-young/</a></p> <a class="" href="https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=It's%20not%20just%20humans%20and%20%23dolphins%20who%20use%20unique%20sounds%20%F0%9F%94%8A%F0%9F%AA%87%F0%9F%8E%B6%20to%20connect%20with%20their%20young.%20%23Birds%20like%20%23parrots%20also%20teach%20their%20chicks%20unique%20sounds%20so%20that%20they%20can%20identify%20their%20mothers%20%F0%9F%A6%9C%F0%9F%8E%B5%F0%9F%A5%81%F0%9F%A6%9C%20%23Boycott4Wildlife%20to%20protect%20them!%20%20%40palmoildetect.bsky.social%20%20https%3A%2F%2Fpalmoildetectives.com%2F2021%2F05%2F19%2Fwhats-my-name-how-wild-parrots-identify-their-young%2F%20%20%20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Share to BlueSky</a> <a class="" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=It's%20not%20just%20humans%20and%20%23dolphins%20who%20use%20unique%20sounds%20%F0%9F%94%8A%F0%9F%AA%87%F0%9F%8E%B6%20to%20connect%20with%20their%20young.%20%23Birds%20like%20%23parrots%20also%20teach%20their%20chicks%20unique%20sounds%20so%20that%20they%20can%20identify%20their%20mothers%20%F0%9F%A6%9C%F0%9F%8E%B5%F0%9F%A5%81%F0%9F%A6%9C%20%23Boycott4Wildlife%20to%20protect%20them!%20%40palmoildetect%20https%3A%2F%2Fpalmoildetectives.com%2F2021%2F05%2F19%2Fwhats-my-name-how-wild-parrots-identify-their-young%2F&url=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Share to Twitter</a> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/DYpH5Y-JPBU" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/DYpH5Y-JPBU</a></p><p>Humans and <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/09/15/irrawaddy-dolphin-orcaella-brevirostris/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dolphins create unique sounds</a> by which individuals are identified and there was some evidence to suggest captive parrots created ‘contact calls’ – special calls used to identify family and friends. But until now, it was not clear how or if this naming process worked in nature.</p><p>To test whether contact calls were innate or learned from parents, researchers from Cornell University and the University of California in the U.S. took eggs from the nests of wild green-rumped parrotlets (<em>Forpus passerinus</em>) and swapped them with eggs from other wild wild green-rumped parrotlet nests. Twelve nests were used in the swapping experiment.</p><p>Eight additional nests served as controls, where the eggs were removed but then put back without swapping.</p><p>By observing the chicks’ development through video and audio rigs, the scientists saw that the <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/15/timneh-parrot-psittacus-timneh/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">young parrots</a> used the contact calls of their adoptive parents.</p>A study of green-rumped parrotlets found that adopted chicks use the names given to them by their foster parents, suggested naming is learned rather than hard-wired. Flickr/barloventomagico<p>This suggests that the names used to identify them were learned, rather than hard-wired by DNA from their biological parents, the authors said.</p><p>“Our results provide the first experimental evidence for learned vocal production by naive <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/21/blue-backed-parrot-tanygnathus-everetti/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">parrots in nature</a>. Nestling contact calls were more similar to the contact calls of their primary care-givers than to <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2025/03/09/glaucous-macaw-anodorhynchus-glaucus/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">adults at other nests</a>, despite half of the n<a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/10/20/laughs-cries-and-deception-birds-emotional-lives-are-just-as-complicated-as-ours/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">estlings being raised by foster parents</a>,” the authors wrote in their <a href="http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/07/07/rspb.2011.0932.full" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">paper, which was published by the journal <em>Proceedings of The Royal Society B</em>.</a></p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/au/team#sunanda-creagh" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sunanda Creagh</a>, Editor, <em><a href="http://www.theconversation.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Conversation</a></em>. 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Palm Oil Detectives<p><strong>Monkey minds: what we can learn from primate personality</strong></p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/carla-litchfield-4346" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Carla Litchfield</a>, <em><a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-south-australia-1180" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">University of South Australia</a></em></p><p>Every human is different. Some are outgoing, while others are reserved and shy. Some are focused and diligent, while others are haphazard and unfussed. Some people are curious, others avoid novelty and enjoy their rut.</p><p>This is reflected in our personality, which is typically measured across five factors, known as the “<a href="http://psychology.about.com/od/personalitydevelopment/a/bigfive.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Big Five</a>”. These are:</p> <blockquote><p class="">Fascinating <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/research/" target="_blank">#research</a> by @UniversitySA <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/primates/" target="_blank">#primates</a>, just like us have unique personalities. Some are chilled, while others are chaotic, some are curious while others are conservative. Some are the life of the jungle party, others shy! </p><p><a class="" href="http://twitter.com/share?&text=Fascinating%20%23research%20by%20%40UniversitySA%20%23primates%2C%20just%20like%20us%20have%20unique%20personalities.%20Some%20are%20chilled%2C%20while%20others%20are%20chaotic%2C%20some%20are%20curious%20while%20others%20are%20conservative.%20Some%20are%20the%20life%20of%20the%20jungle%20party%2C%20others%20shy!%20&url=https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/04/21/monkey-minds-what-we-can-learn-from-primate-personality/&via=palmoildetect" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Tweet</a></p></blockquote> <ul><li><strong>Openness</strong> – intellectual curiosity and preference for novelty</li><li><strong>Conscientiousness</strong> – the degree of organisation and self-discipline</li><li><strong>Extraversion</strong> – sociability, emotional expression and tendency to seek others’ company</li><li><strong>Agreeableness</strong> – degree of trust or suspicious of others and tendencies towards helpfulness and altruism, and</li><li><strong>Neuroticism</strong> – emotional stability or volatility.</li></ul><p>But did you know that our primate cousins – other apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, gorillas and gibbons) and monkeys – also exhibit a similar personality profile? Some are bold, others shy. Some are friendly, other aggressive. Some are curious, while others are conservative.</p><p>But they also differ from us in some interesting ways. And it’s in teasing out these differences that we can learn a surprising amount about the way they live, and how they have evolved.</p>Purple-faced Langur Semnopithecus vetulus<p><strong>Social influence</strong></p><p>Comparative psychologists have long adapted personality tests to measure the personality of other species, including <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914006217" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">pets</a>, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0037104" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">big cats</a>, and our “hairy” <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.v72:8/issuetoc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">primate relatives</a>.</p><p>Since nonhuman animals cannot fill out a questionnaire, a human who knows them well – perhaps a caregiver, zookeeper, owner, researcher or park ranger – rates their personality for them.</p><p>Chimpanzees, it turns out, are remarkably similar to us in their personality make-up. They have been found to have the same five personality factors that we have. However, they also have a sixth <a href="http://www.u.arizona.edu/%7Eajf/pdf/King%20%26%20Figueredo%201997.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Dominance</a> factor. This includes features such as: independent, confident, fearless, intelligent, bullying and persistent.</p><p>Why do chimps have a Dominance factor and we don’t? It appears to be due to the kind of <a href="https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XsrhU2vV5PIC&hl=en" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">society that chimps live in</a>. Understanding the dominance hierarchy of male chimpanzees – who is powerful and who is not – is a matter of survival and well-being for every chimpanzee in a community.</p><p>Other primates also show interesting variations in personality that correspond to their social dynamics.</p><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/85348/original/image-20150617-23239-talpdf.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Do I look conscientious or neurotic? Rod Waddington/Flickr, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CC BY-SA</a><p><strong>Macaque machinations</strong></p><p>The 22 species of macaque monkeys are the only primates that are as <a href="http://www.iucnredlist.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">widespread in their distribution as we are</a>. Along with their disparate habitats, they also have a wide variation in the structure of the societies, which appears to have <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000041" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">influenced the evolution of their personalities</a>.</p><p>A team of researchers, led by Mark Adams and Alexander Weiss of Edinburgh University, investigated personality and social structure in six species of macaque and found some interesting variation.</p><p>There are four main categories of social style, ranging from Grade 1 “despotic” to Grade 4 “tolerant”, depending on how strict or relaxed their female dominance hierarchies are.</p><p>Grade 1 species showed strong nepotism or favouritism towards kin and high ranking monkeys. These species include rhesus macaques, a species commonly used in <a href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/rhesus-monkey/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">laboratories</a> and <a href="http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sent into space before humans</a>, and Japanese macaques, which include the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txDR1y1drl0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">famous snow monkeys</a> who soak in hot springs.</p> Lion tailed macaque <p>At the other end of the spectrum, the Grade 4 species showed more tolerance in social interactions between unrelated females. This includes Tonkean macaques, which are found in Sulawesi and the nearby Togian Islands in <a href="http://www.arkive.org/tonkean-macaque/macaca-tonkeana/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Indonesia</a>, and Crested macaques, which are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmjCrZNlOps" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">critically endangered</a>.</p><p>(A wild crested macaque received international attention when he stole a wildlife photographer’s camera and then <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8615859/Monkey-steals-camera-to-snap-himself.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">photographed himself</a>. This could be an example of a “bold” and “curious” personality.)</p>Red-cheeked Gibbon Nomascus gabriellae<p>In the middle of the social tolerance scale are the Grade 2 and 3 species. This includes Assamese macaques, which are sometimes found at high altitudes <a href="http://www.arkive.org/assam-macaque/macaca-assamensis/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">in Nepal and Tibet</a>, and Barbary macaques, which include the infamous <a href="http://www.barbarymacaque.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“apes” of Gibraltar</a> (actually monkeys, not apes), who are often overweight and aggressive because tourists overfeed them.</p><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/85349/original/image-20150617-23223-sphe68.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Do I look aggressive to you? Michelle Bender/Flickr, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CC BY-NC-ND</a><p><strong>Personality differences between macaque species</strong></p><p>Interestingly, the individual species of macaques didn’t all have the same personality factors. The Japanese, Barbary, crested and Tonkean macaques had only four, while the Assamese had five, and rhesus monkeys had six factors.</p><p>All of the species exhibited the dimension of Friendliness. This seems to be a personality factor unique to macaques, and is a blend of chimpanzee Agreeableness and human Altruism.</p><p>Tonkean macaques also had a Sociability personality factor. Just like chimpanzees and humans, this species of macaque uses affiliative contacts (i.e. friendship) to reinforce bonds. Only crested macaques did not show the personality factor of Openness (i.e. curiosity), usually found in humans and other primates. The factors Dominance and Anxiety were found for rhesus and Japanese macaques.</p><p><strong>The old and the new</strong></p><p>The study also showed the fascinating connections between personality and social style. Grade 1 despotic species – Japanese and rhesus macaques – were rather similar, and so were Grades 2, 3 and 4, including the more tolerant species such as Assamese, Tonkean and crested macaques.</p><p>On the evolutionary scale, African primates, such as the African Barbary macaque, are “older”. Therefore, they represented the “ancestral” social behaviours for macaques.</p><p>Barbary macaque personality has a Dominance/Confidence factor, which is related to social assertiveness, an Opportunism factor, which relates to aggression and impulsivity, a Friendliness factor, relating to social affiliation, and an Openness factor, relating to curiosity and exploratory behaviour.</p><p>Rhesus and Japanese macaques, on the other hand, are “younger” on the evolutionary scale. Therefore, the Dominance and Anxiety factors seen in these species must have evolved later.</p><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/85350/original/image-20150617-23259-1g5enlg.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Psst. You’re disagreeable. jinterwas/Flickr, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CC BY</a><p>Understanding the personality of an individual animal or species can help in animal management and welfare. Rhesus macaques, for example, display an Anxiety personality factor. These monkeys are also most commonly used in bio-medical laboratory research. Knowing that some individuals may be prone to anxiety means that researchers must make extra efforts to alleviate any potential distress.</p><p>The findings that some Barbary macaques may be especially socially assertive, aggressive, impulsive, curious and exploratory may also help us convince tourists to keep their distance from these monkeys in Gibraltar to avoid conflicts!</p><p>Such studies of animal personality also shed light on our own personality dimensions. Our lack of a Dominance factor suggests that our ancestral environment was perhaps more egalitarian and less characterised by high social stratification, which is also borne out by <a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674006911" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">anthropological and palaeontological studies</a>.</p><p>Ultimately, we can learn a lot from our primate cousins, not only about their personalities, but about personality itself – not to mention learning a thing or two about ourselves and the social environment in which we evolved.</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/carla-litchfield-4346" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Carla Litchfield</a>, Lecturer, School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, <em><a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-south-australia-1180" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">University of South Australia</a></em></p><p>This article is republished from <a href="https://theconversation.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. 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Palm Oil Detectives<p><strong>The lengthy childhood of endangered orangutans is written in their teeth</strong></p><p>Orangutan populations in the wild are <a href="http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/39780/0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">critically</a> <a href="http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/17975/0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">endangered</a>, and one of the things that may hamper their survival is the time they take to rear new offspring.</p><p>An orangutan mother will not give birth again until she’s finished providing milk to her previous offspring. Nursing can take a long time and vary across seasons, as we found in research published today in <a href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/5/e1601517" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Science Advances</a>.</p> <blockquote><p class=""><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/orangutans/" target="_blank">#Orangutans</a> of <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/borneo/" target="_blank">#Borneo</a> and <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/indonesia/" target="_blank">#Indonesia</a> are critically endangered by <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/palmoil/" target="_blank">#palmoil</a> deforestation. One factor in their survival is how long they take to rear their young. You can help them with a brand <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/boycott4wildlife/" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a></p><p><a class="" href="http://twitter.com/share?&text=%23Orangutans%20of%20%23Borneo%20and%20%23Indonesia%20are%20critically%20endangered%20by%20%23palmoil%20deforestation.%20One%20factor%20in%20their%20survival%20is%20how%20long%20they%20take%20to%20rear%20their%20young.%20You%20can%20help%20them%20with%20a%20brand%20%23Boycott4Wildlife&url=https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/03/10/the-lengthy-childhood-of-endangered-orangutans-is-written-in-their-teeth/&via=palmoildetect" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Tweet</a></p></blockquote> <p>Primate mothers, including humans, raise only a few slow-growing offspring during their reproductive years.</p>A young Bornean orangutan nursing. Erin Vogel, Author provided<p>Differences in infant development have a profound effect on how many children a female can have over the course of her life – the key marker of success from an evolutionary vantage point.</p><p>Great apes have a high-stakes strategy. Chimpanzee mothers nurse their offspring for five years on average, twice as long as humans in traditional small-scaled societies.</p><p>Orangutans have been suspected of having even longer periods of infant dependency, although determining just how long has been a particular challenge for field biologists. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NuoTzBRsrG0?wmode=transparent&start=0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/embed/NuoTzBRsrG0?wmode=transparent&start=0</a> Wild orangutan from Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo, Indonesia with her one month old infant. (Gunung Palung Orangutan Project)</p><p>Living high up in dwindling Southeast Asian forests, these apes are adept at evading observers. Their nursing behaviour is often concealed, particularly while juveniles cling to their mother or rest together in night nests.</p><p>Maintaining continuous field studies to track their development is expensive, and efforts are hindered by frequent <a href="http://news.rutgers.edu/news/indonesian-fires-threaten-humans-and-wildlife/20151027#.WRiz-1J7GL9" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">forest fires</a> and devastating deforestation for <a href="https://www.orangutan.org.au/about-orangutans/palm-oil/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">palm oil plantations</a>.</p><p><strong>Teeth tell the story</strong></p><p>I have spent the past few decades studying how orangutans and other primates form their teeth. Amazingly, every day of childhood is captured during tooth formation, a record that begins before birth and lasts for millions of years.</p><p>Teeth also contain detailed dietary, health and behavioural histories, allowing biological anthropologists <a href="https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/reconstructing-hominin-life-history-96635644" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">an unprecedented window into the human past</a>.</p><p>I’ve also teamed up with researchers Manish Arora and Christine Austin, at <a href="http://labs.icahn.mssm.edu/lautenberglab/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai</a> in New York, who have pioneered methods to map the fine-scaled elemental composition of teeth, as well as primate lactation expert <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/katie-hinde-340889" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Katie Hinde</a> at Arizona State University.</p><p>We have shown in a previous study that tiny amounts of the element barium are an <a href="https://heb.fas.harvard.edu/press4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">accurate marker of mother’s milk consumption</a>. Like calcium, barium is sourced from the mother’s skeleton, concentrated in milk, and ultimately written into the bones and teeth of her offspring.</p><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/169224/original/file-20170514-3668-ld2oq9.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Tooth growth creates daily lines (indicated by short white lines), as well as a neonatal line (NL) at birth. Growth starts at the junction between enamel and dentine, and progresses away from the junction and towards the root (arrows). Christine Austin and Tanya Smith<p>Once animals start nursing after birth, their teeth show increases in barium values, which begin to decrease when solid food is added to the diet. These values drop further to pre-birth levels when primates stop nursing and are weaned.</p><p>We’ve recently used this approach to explore the nursing histories of wild orangutans in collaboration with orangutan expert <a href="https://erinvogelphd.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Erin Vogel</a> at Rutgers University. In order to do so, I borrowed teeth housed in natural history museums from individuals that had been shot many years ago during collection expeditions.</p><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/169648/original/file-20170517-24330-ecxvj5.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Wild Bornean orangutan mother and suckling 19-month old infant. Paige Prentice, Author provided<p>Orangutan teeth show a gradual increase in barium values from birth through their first year of life, a time of increasing consumption of their mother’s milk. After 12-18 months, values decrease as infants begin eating solid foods consistently.</p><p>But surprisingly, barium levels then begin to fluctuate on an approximately annual basis. We suspect that this is due to seasonal changes in food availability. When fruit is in short supply, infants appear to rely more on their mother’s milk to meet their nutritional needs.</p><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/169244/original/file-20170515-3649-1i5p6zk.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Light microscope image (left) of a wild orangutan molar contrasted with an elemental map of the same tooth (right) showing the distribution of barium. The timing of barium incorporation was determined from accentuated lines (in days of age on the left), which form during enamel and dentine secretion. Approximately annual bands of enriched barium are apparent in the dentine after the first year, likely due to seasonal increases in mother’s milk intake. Smith et al. (2017) Science Advances<p><strong>Hanging around</strong></p><p>Another surprising finding is that nursing may continue for more than eight years, longer than any other wild animal.</p><p>This information is the first of its kind for wild Sumatran orangutans, as they have been especially difficult to study in their native habitat. Previous estimates from two wild Bornean orangutans suggested that juveniles nurse until about six to eight years of age.</p><p>Rather than spending so much time and energy breastfeeding their children, human mothers in traditional societies transition their infants onto soft weaning foods around six months of age, tapering them off milk a few years later.</p><p>Humans also benefit from having help such as older siblings and grandparents who lend a hand with childcare and enable women to energetically prepare for having their next child.</p><p>Orangutan mothers have it hard by comparison. They live alone in unpredictable environments with limited nutritional resources. In order to survive <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/08/03/2971898.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">they use less energy</a> than other great apes, raising their young more slowly.</p><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/169182/original/file-20170513-3675-1rluy4g.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Wild orangutan mother and 11-month old infant. Tim Laman, Author provided<p><strong>Vulnerable orangutans</strong></p><p>Female orangutans begin reproducing around age 15 and can live until 50 years old in the most favourable of circumstances. They bear new offspring every six to nine years, producing no more than six or seven descendents over their lifetime.</p><p>Having a long nursing period and slow maturation makes orangutan populations especially vulnerable to environmental perturbations.</p><p>Recent work has also implicated <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/orangutan-conservation-food/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">poor habitat quality</a> and the pet trade as additional factors in their rapidly declining numbers, which is underscored by their critically endangered status.</p><p>Research on collections housed in natural history museums provides timely evidence of how remarkable orangutans are, how much information we can retrieve from their teeth, and why <a href="http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/great_apes/orangutans/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">conservation efforts</a> informed by evolutionary biology are critical.</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/tanya-m-smith-351822" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Tanya M. Smith</a>, Associate Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, <em><a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/griffith-university-828" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Griffith University</a></em></p><p>This article is republished from <a href="https://theconversation.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-lengthy-childhood-of-endangered-orangutans-is-written-in-their-teeth-77564" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">original article</a>.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/amazing-animals/" target="_blank">#amazingAnimals</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/animal/" target="_blank">#animal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/animal-behaviour/" target="_blank">#animalBehaviour</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/animal-communication/" target="_blank">#animalCommunication</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/animal-intelligence/" target="_blank">#animalIntelligence</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/animal-rights/" target="_blank">#animalRights</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/bornean-orangutan-pongo-pygmaeus/" target="_blank">#BorneanOrangutanPongoPygmaeus</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/borneo/" target="_blank">#Borneo</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/childhood/" target="_blank">#childhood</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/indonesia/" target="_blank">#Indonesia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/orangutans/" target="_blank">#orangutans</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/palmoil/" target="_blank">#palmoil</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/sumatran-orangutan-pongo-abelii/" target="_blank">#SumatranOrangutanPongoAbelii</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://palmoildetectives.com/tag/tapanuli-orangutan-pongo-tapanuliensis/" target="_blank">#TapanuliOrangutanPongoTapanuliensis</a></p>
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