Biodiversity Why Primates?
WHY PRIMATES?
A Window into Biodiversity
Every species contributes to the ecosystems in which it lives. Primates are no exception. As they search for food, travel through their habitats, avoid predators, raise their young, and interact with other living things, they help shape the living systems that support life around them.
The following video, from our Discovering Primates video series, explores just a few examples of these ecological relationships. As you watch, notice how the lives of primates reveal the remarkable connections that make biodiversity possible.
The examples in this video are just a small glimpse of how biodiversity works. Similar interactions occur every day among millions of species living in forests, grasslands, wetlands, deserts, mountains, oceans, and cities around the world. Every organism, from microscopic fungi to towering trees to the largest mammals, plays roles that help sustain the living systems on which all life depends.
Every primate is part of a much larger story—the story of biodiversity.
Primates are our starting point. Biodiversity is the story they help us tell.
