“Is it right, in the deepest moral sense, for one conscious being to eat another? » Throughout Eating Apes, Dale Peterson walks readers through what he has experienced, seen, and the problems posed by trying to protect apes in order to lead us to answer this question. He achieved this through the stories of Karl Ammann, who took the photographs featured in the book, and Joseph Melloh, a gorilla hunter from Cameroon. Before taking this course, my knowledge about the extinction of monkeys extended to realizing that we needed to save them from extinction. However, I was unaware of the brutality with which monkeys were treated, or how important they were to the people of Central Africa – until I started reading Eating Apes. Eating Apes is a descriptive but difficult to read book that describes why the monkey population was declining and the various stakeholders involved. Peterson wrote this book to illustrate and inform others about how humans killed and ate apes such as gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. for food in Central Africa. He also tries to understand what is happening in Central Africa by interviewing monkey hunters. These interviews helped him understand that hunting was not a matter of hunger, but a choice. Hunters working snares in the Central African Republic could earn between $400 and $700 per year, which is comparable to the salary earned by national park rangers (115). In other words, hunters made a reasonable amount of money hunting and continued to do so. During his trip to Central Africa, Peterson also took time to explore the meat markets and soon discovered that chimpanzee and gorilla meat were sold at higher prices than beef or pork, because they were considered like luxury products. ...... middle of article ...... reward and help. We may not all be conservation biologists, but I believe we can help our local communities petition or raise funds and raise awareness of the range of species. It doesn't have to stop there, perhaps writing letters to big companies like the CIB and expressing our opinions on the bushmeat crisis will help them realize that their actions affect everyone at the same time. global scale. I think many of the companies involved in and behind the illegal killing of monkeys assume that their actions only affect local people and that those people benefit through food and money. However, I believe that once these companies understand that the bushmeat crisis and the illegal killing of great apes are damaging on a global scale, we can effectively help end the meat crisis. bush.