Extensive diversity of SIVagm infecting synanthropic African green monkeys and Olive Baboons in Kenya

Nyamota, Richard; Vincent, O.; Edwin, M. J.; Moses, O.; Jandouwe, V.; Maamun, Jeneby M.

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2018.04.3618

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“…The taxonomic patterns across human‐modified environments revealed by the present analysis are largely explained by the ecological variation among nonhuman primates. Extant hominoids, including greater and lesser apes, typically experience population decline when in close contact with humans (Walsh et al., 2003 ), whereas a number of cercopithecine monkeys exhibit documented synanthropy, especially Macaca , Papio , and Chlorocebus (Engel et al., 2010 ; Klegarth, 2016 ; Knauf & Jones‐Engel, 2020 ; Nyamota et al., 2018 ).…”

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What does it mean to be wild? Assessing human influence on the environments of nonhuman primate specimens in museum collections

Eller

Canington

Saiyed

et al. 2021

Ecology and Evolution

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Objectives Natural history collections are often thought to represent environments in a pristine natural state—free from human intervention—the so‐called “wild.” In this study, we aim to assess the level of human influence represented by natural history collections of wild‐collected primates over 120 years at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Materials and Methods Our sample consisted of 875 catarrhine primate specimens in NMNH collections, representing 13 genera collected in 39 countries from 1882 to 2004. Using archival and accession information we determined the approximate locations from which specimens were collected. We then plotted location coordinates onto publicly available anthrome maps created by Ellis et al. (Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2010, 19, 589), which delineate terrestrial biomes of human population density and land use worldwide since the 1700s. Results We found that among primates collected from their native ranges, 92% were from an environment that had some level of human impact, suggesting that the majority of presumed wild‐collected primate specimens lived in an environment influenced by humans during their lifetimes. Discussion The degree to which human‐modified environments may have impacted the lives of primates currently held in museum collections has been historically ignored, implicating unforeseen consequences for collection‐based research. While unique effects related to commensalism with humans remain understudied, effects currently attributed to natural phenomena may, in fact, be related to anthropogenic pressures on unmanaged populations of primates.

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