Monkey populations will suffer as climate change alters their food

By Nicky Phillips
Updated October 27 2014 - 10:08am, first published October 3 2014 - 9:22am
Diet dilemma: Climate change is reducing the nutritional quality of leaves eaten by colobus monkeys in Uganda. Photo: David Raubenheimer
Diet dilemma: Climate change is reducing the nutritional quality of leaves eaten by colobus monkeys in Uganda. Photo: David Raubenheimer
Diet dilemma: Climate change is reducing the nutritional quality of leaves eaten by colobus monkeys in Uganda. Photo: David Raubenheimer
Diet dilemma: Climate change is reducing the nutritional quality of leaves eaten by colobus monkeys in Uganda. Photo: David Raubenheimer
Diet dilemma: Climate change is reducing the nutritional quality of leaves eaten by colobus monkeys in Uganda. Photo: David Raubenheimer
Diet dilemma: Climate change is reducing the nutritional quality of leaves eaten by colobus monkeys in Uganda. Photo: David Raubenheimer

If you consider the consequences of global warming, it's always the major effects that receive the most attention – glaciers melting, sea levels rising, more frequent and more intense bushfires, floods and cyclones.