Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Often cited as our closest living relative, chimps are highly intelligent and social animals. They live in a variety of tropical forest habitats in Africa, and are adept at climbing. They usually eat fruits, leaves, seeds, flowers, insects, honey, and soil, but they occasionally prey on larger animals. They will usually hunt primates, and carry out coordinated treetop hunts where some chimps drive a monkey into the waiting hands of an ambush. They use tools to help them obtain food, including sticks to fish for termites and honey, rocks to crack open nuts, and simple spears to kill Senegal bushbabies hiding in tree holes.
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🦍The primate tournament list of candidates has been finalised! Polls will start going up soon!🦧
Thank you to everyone who submitted a species! Here is the full written list:
Basal primates (non-simian primates, including Strepsirrhini and Tarsiiformes)
†Notharctus (Notharctus tenebrosus)
Calabar angwantibo (Arctocebus calabarensis)
West African potto (Perodicticus potto)
Red slender loris (Loris tardigradus)
Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis)
Pygmy slow loris (Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus)
Senegal bushbaby (Galago senegalensis)
Brown greater galago (Otolemur crassicaudatus)
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)
Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)
†Archaeoindris (Archaeoindris fontoynontii)
†Megaladapis (Megaladapis madagascariensis)
Madame berthe’s mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae)
Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)
Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta)
Pygmy tarsier (Tarsius pumilus)
New world monkeys (Platyrrhini)
Wied’s marmoset (Callithrix kuhlii)
Goeldi’s marmoset (Callimico goeldii)
Bearded emperor tamarin (Saguinus imperator subgrisescens)
Golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas)
Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator)
Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii)
Gray-bellied night monkey (Aotus lemurinus)
Bald uakari (Cacajao calvus)
Madidi titi monkey (Plecturocebus aureipalatii)
Atlantic titi monkey (Callicebus personatus)
Black bearded saki (Chiropotes satanas)
White-faced saki (Pithecia pithecia)
Colombian red howler (Alouatta seniculus)
Brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus)
Northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus)
Yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda)
Old world monkeys (Cercopithecidae)
Mantled guereza (Colobus guereza)
Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii)
Nepal gray langur (Semnopithecus schistaceus)
Silvery lutung (Trachypithecus cristatux)
Golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)
Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus)
Red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus)
Collared mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus)
Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)
Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)
Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas)
Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)
Gelada (Theropithecus gelada)
Common patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas)
Bale mountains vervet (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis)
De brazza’s monkey (Cercopithecus neglectus)
Apes (Hominoidea)
Lar gibbon (Hylobates lar)
Pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus)
Kloss’s gibbon (Hylobates klossii)
Northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys)
Siamang (symphalangus syndactylus)
†Junzi (Junzi imperialis)
Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
†Gigantopithecus (Gigantopithecus blacki)
†Dryopithecus (Dryopithecus fontani)
Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Bonobo (Pan paniscus)
†Australopithecus (Australopithecus afarensis)
†Panranthropus (Panranthropus boisei)
†Flores hobbit (Homo floresiensis)
†Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis)
The first set of polls will go up as soon as I have finished writing the descriptions! In the meantime, I would appreciate if you could share this tournament around- it won’t be much of a tournament if there aren’t that many people voting! In going down the research rabbit hole I’ve found so many interesting species and stories, and I promise learning about them here will be worth your time!
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Senegal bushbaby is listed as least concern, looking it up, so it's not endangered. Admittedly still kinda weird to buy a monkey and I have no idea what the relevant laws are in (I assume) Japan.
On one hand, it’s not one of the endangered bushbabies.
On the other hand, she got an exotic pet that I am 99% certain she’s not equipped to properly care for, those are nocturnal, have very sensitive eyes, and have needs that require a very specialized environment if not just left to thrive naturally in the wild.
Or, in other words, it’s not “kinda weird”, it’s fucked up and beyond stupid.
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Round 1, part 2, match 14: chimps
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Often cited as our closest living relative, chimps are highly intelligent and social animals. They live in a variety of tropical forest habitats in Africa, and are adept at climbing. They usually eat fruits, leaves, seeds, flowers, insects, honey, and soil, but they occasionally prey on larger animals. They will usually hunt primates, and carry out coordinated treetop hunts where some chimps drive a monkey into the waiting hands of an ambush. They use tools to help them obtain food, including sticks to fish for termites and honey, rocks to crack open nuts, and simple spears to kill Senegal bushbabies hiding in tree holes.
Bonobo (Pan paniscus)
Once known as the pygmy chimpanzee, the bonobo is now recognised as a separate species. They live in tropical forests south of the Congo River, and eat fruit, leaves, honey, and small animals like insects and mammals. They are very social and less violent than chimpanzees. They’re also really horny, like all the time. They’re the only non-human species known to engage in tongue kissing and face-to-face sex, because of course they are. And as expected from a species whose sex lives have been studied as much as they have, both male-male and female-female relations have been documented.
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