25 Most Endangered Primates : Prosimians (poll).

Which prosimian will you vote for ?

  • Rondo dwarf galago

    Votes: 11 100.0%

  • Javan slow loris

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    11
  • Poll closed .
Dassie rat said:
The galago was being filmed for a Rolf Harris programme about London Zoo. It was about to be moved from one enclosure to another. It escaped when its enclosure was opened and, as far as I know, was never seen again
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That is a shame, poor thing :(.

That said, there is a good chance that you did see it in the flesh while it was at ZSL.

I have to ask, considering that you may have seen the animal personally how do you feel about the plight of the species in the wild ?
 
CheeseChameleon2007 said:
Thats interesting to here, I tried all of them! They almost sound like birds, but man, Rondo dwarf galagos have their own little language where they live. Cool!
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Yes, it is pretty cool indeed.

That is actually how the scientist that @Dassie rat mentioned in his comment (and who he has met) discovered the species. It was pretty much through identifying its call as being different from other galagos.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Yes, it is pretty cool indeed.

That is actually how the scientist that @Dassie rat mentioned in his comment (and who he has met) discovered the species. It was pretty much through identifying its call as being different from other galagos.
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Yeah, Thats super cool. Its crazy these days to think brand new animals can just be discovered with just something like recording calls. Its remarkable when you think about it.
 
CheeseChameleon2007 said:
Yeah, Thats super cool. Its crazy these days to think brand new animals can just be discovered with just something like recording calls. Its remarkable when you think about it.
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Yep, I agree, not just with calls too but also by looking at DNA barcoding we can identify species.

We are now realizing that there were a lot more of these than previously thought and often hiding in plain sight.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Yep, I agree, not just with calls too but also by looking at DNA barcoding we can identify species.

We are now realizing that there were a lot more of these than previously thought and often hiding in plain sight.
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And thats really exciting, because I don't think they'll be a point in time where discovering new species will be struggling and die down, because more species are discovered every day!
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Can't remember how I found that one really, lol, usually I just come across them while I'm looking up a species or research paper or whatever and bookmark the pages.
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Ah, I see. I really wish that awesome website Arkive.org was still up, it was a pretty useful tool for images, and videos. Sadly it shut down in February of 2019, I have to say I was a little annoyed, as I only discovered the website a couple months before.
 
One last thing, since you seem to be the person who can find a lot of animal images and websites and stuff, is there anything with some information about the critically endangered Opisthoteuthis chathamensis? They would most certainly fit into that category of critically endangered animals that no programs are trying to help.
 
CheeseChameleon2007 said:
One last thing, since you seem to be the person who can find a lot of animal images and websites and stuff, is there anything with some information about the critically endangered Opisthoteuthis chathamensis? They would most certainly fit into that category of critically endangered animals that no programs are trying to help.
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What kind of information in particular ? general ecology ? conservation situation ?
 
CheeseChameleon2007 said:
Conservation efforts in particular, anything about their status and overall efforts.
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Not a lot out there unfortunately, but I found this in a paper whose link I've included below:

"Roughy umbrella octopus, Opisthoteuthis chathamensis O’Shea, 2000 Recorded only from New Zealand, this octopus species has been captured from soft sediment habitat at depths between 900 and 1438 m off East Cape and the Chatham Rise (O’Shea 1999). Taken as bycatch in the deepwater trawl fishery, this species has not been recorded since 1999. The apparent pattern of decline in this species placed it in the ‘nationally critical’ category"

-(https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00288330.2010.495373?needAccess=true)
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Not a lot out there unfortunately, but I found this in a paper whose link I've included below:

"Roughy umbrella octopus, Opisthoteuthis chathamensis O’Shea, 2000 Recorded only from New Zealand, this octopus species has been captured from soft sediment habitat at depths between 900 and 1438 m off East Cape and the Chatham Rise (O’Shea 1999). Taken as bycatch in the deepwater trawl fishery, this species has not been recorded since 1999. The apparent pattern of decline in this species placed it in the ‘nationally critical’ category"

-(https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00288330.2010.495373?needAccess=true)
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Thank you so much! I'll be reading this for sure. You are a true helper!
 
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