African leaf-eating primates 'likely to be wiped out' by climate change
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 13:35
in Biology & Nature
Monkey species will become 'increasingly at risk of extinction' because of global warming, according to new research. The study reveals that populations of monkeys and apes in Africa that depend largely on a diet of leaves may be wiped out by a rise in annual temperatures of two degrees Celsius.