Lion-Tailed Macaque By: Niroja. N Teacher:Mr. Kass Class:
Biology( SBI3U0) Unit Summative
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Species Profile Taxonomy: - Kingdom: Animalia - Phylum:
Chordata - Class: Mammalia - Order: Primates -Family:
Ceropithecidae -Genus: Macaca - Species: Silenus Common Name:
Lion-tailed Macaque, Wanderoo, Wanderu and Wanderoe Scientific
Name: Macaca silenus Geographic range: Lion- tailed macaques live
in southwest India in of evergreen forests, called sholas, in the
Western Ghats range. These social monkeys live in rainforest
treetops in India's Western Ghats mountains. Habitat: Lion tailed
macaque are unique among macaques in being limited in habitation of
tropical wet evergreen forest. But may also be found in forest in
country and in forest.
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Species Profile Continues Type of System -Terrestrial and
Arboreal it defends its area first with loud cries towards the
invading troops. Current Population - the total wild population is
estimated to be less than 2,500 individuals, made with 47 isolated
in seven different location. - The population tend is small and in
forests that isolated from each other. Less than 2,000 are mature.
Population Trend: The population trend is decreasing.
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Major Threats 1) Habitat and the population fragmentation 2)
Hunting 3) Habitat Degradation
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Major Threats 1) Habitat and Population Fragmentation - Most of
the rainforest in Western Ghat where lion-tailed macaque lives have
been lost and the remaining habitat of lion-tailed macaques occurs
small as a group with 1-4 groups.
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Major Treats Continues 2) Hunting - Hunting was the serious
part of the major threat in certain parts, lion-tailed macaque are
threatened by the non subsistence and subsistence hunting for
food.
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Major Threats continues 3) Habitat Degradation - The patches of
the rainforests has been degraded which means to due with logging,
plantation, and the timber wood collection. First of all logging
has reduce the population of the lion-tailed macaques, and still in
continues to be one of the major threats for small population such
as where the lion-tailed macaque living right now.
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Food Web ON A SERPERATE PIEACE OF PAPER
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Classification Map The phylum of lion-tailed macaque is
chordata - This is not the only animal that falls under chordata
there's is more animals. (3) other organisms that are found in this
phylum are mountain lion, fishes, and zebras. - Chordata are
consists of notochord, notochord are the length of its body.
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Consequences If the lion-tailed macaques becomes extinct then:
- there might be less than 4,000 lion-tailed macaque left in the
wild. - Negative impact on human welfare - Lion-tailed macaque
depends on clean water, natural flood controls and other forest
that they need, without these the ecological services, it may be at
risks. -
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Personal Response Biodiversity is important because it provides
us with food, clean air, medicines and the beauty. Biodiversity is
important because of the human society, the continued of evolution,
and the stability of food webs. Firstly, biodiversity is important
because of the ecosystem that we have,all living beings on this
planet depend on each other for survival, and this is why
biodiversity is important because it revolves around us. The human
society is the most intelligent of species in this planet. Human
depends on nature to sustain our basic needs, without nitrogen
fixing bacteria we would never been able to grow crops, you wont be
able to eat food, without biodiversity we will not obtain food for
ourselves. Biodiversity is not only important to humans it is also
important to every species that are living on earth. Continues on
the next slide :)
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Personal Response Continued Secondly, biodiversity is important
because of the continued of evolution, this is the important role
of biodiversity, without evolution no species such as human, animal
wont live on earth. Biodiversity is the one that created life,
without biodiversity and evolution life will not inhabited on
earth. The rate of evolution of species are extinct increases while
the rates of evolution will remain the same, it will effect the
life cycle on the planet and the environmental that consider
biodiversity as am important factor for the continued of evolution.
Lastly, biodiversity is important because of the stability of food
web that we have, without the stability of food it can spell a
disaster for the ecosystems, when the carnivorous animal is
extinct, the population of the secondary consumers will increase.
The increase number will effect the herbivores by pressuring the
vegetables, and the lack of vegetable will effect the
precipitation, and that is not good, that's why biodiversity with
stability of food is important for species. People should not be
asking question such as Is biodiversity important? because there
are no simple answer to this question because human should know
about the environment factor that is happening all around
them.
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Action Plan As you may see this ad, the hunters are hunting for
lion-tailed macaque with a source of medicine. If lion- tailed
macaque are decline in population, it may not be good because it
will impact the humans welfare. IF YOU DONT WANT IT TO IMPACT THE
HUMANS WELFARE TAKE ACTION!!! HOW CAN U HELP? ANSWER TO THAT IS:
-BY ADOPTING ONE OF THEM
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