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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/primates.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='More than Half of the Worlds Primates Disappearing' data-article-id='2258'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='15375'>Scientists who study primates say that we are moving towards a time when species like gorillas will no longer be found in the wild.</span> <span data-start-time='15375' data-end-time='19896'>They say Orangutans would be gone too.</span> <span data-start-time='19896' data-end-time='24875'>And Madagascar would lose its lemurs.</span> <span data-start-time='24875' data-end-time='32333'>Jo Setchell is a primatologist at Durham University in Britain.</span> <span data-start-time='32333' data-end-time='44917'>She studies primates, the group of mammals that includes gorillas, chimps, monkeys, gibbons, mandrills, and lemurs.</span> <span data-start-time='44917' data-end-time='48104'>And, of course, humans.</span> <span data-start-time='48104' data-end-time='60708'>So If we have 60 percent threatened with extinction at the moment, then we will see that number rise and within our lifetimes, within our children's lifetimes, we will eradicate other primates.</span> <span data-start-time='60708' data-end-time='68042'>In all, there are an estimated 600 different species of primates.</span> <span data-start-time='68042' data-end-time='79875'>They include the little creature called the mouse lemur, whose body is only about six centimeters long.</span> <span data-start-time='79875' data-end-time='90208'>Then, there is the largest of the species, the gorilla, weighing up to 250 kilograms.</span> <span data-start-time='90208' data-end-time='99354'>Primates face one common threat: loss of habitat, the places in nature where they live.</span> <span data-start-time='99354' data-end-time='107063'>Primatologists like Setchell say human activity is to blame.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/primates.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=8280 data-hint-location='48104' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/what_does_eradicate_mean.m4a'>What does eradicate mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='eliminate or destroy'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/increase_numbers.m4a'><span>increase numbers</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/human_activity.m4a'><span>human activity</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/eliminate_or_destroy.m4a'><span>eliminate or destroy</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/damage_habitat.m4a'><span>damage habitat</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=8281 data-hint-location='99354' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/what_is_causing_primate_extinction.m4a'>What is causing primate extinction?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='human activity'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/new_research.m4a'><span>new research</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/human_activity.m4a'><span>human activity</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/fake_news.m4a'><span>fake news</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/global_warming.m4a'><span>global warming</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=8282 data-hint-location='60708' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/there_are_an_estimated__blank__different_species_of_primates.m4a'>There are an estimated <span class='blank'>six hundred</span> different species of primates.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='six hundred'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/two_hundred.m4a'><span>two hundred</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/six_thousand.m4a'><span>six thousand</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/six_hundred.m4a'><span>six hundred</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1740/sixty.m4a'><span>sixty</span></div></div></div><div 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