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Massive Monkey
JANE BARLOW/PA IMAGES VIA GETTY IMAGES
HANGING OUT: Visitors got a surprise last fall when they saw this giant monkey installation scaling a building at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, in Scotland.
This three-story-tall monkey clinging to a building at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, in Scotland, isn’t a relative of King Kong. It’s an inflatable sculpture, called “Golden Monkey.” Artist Lisa Roet designed it to draw attention to the negative impacts of human development on wildlife.
Roet’s installation depicts a Myanmar snub-nosed monkey. This species found in China and Myanmar is endangered, in part because people are cutting down its forest habitat, or natural home. “As we’re expanding our urban environments, nature has to share that space with us,” says Roet. “My piece asks, ‘How can we respect and work together with the natural world?’”
Earth is home to about 514 species of primates—a group that includes apes and monkeys. According to this graph, roughly what percentage of primate species are threatened by urban development?
SOURCE: IUCN RED LIST