The threat of the sixth mass extinction looms larger with every inaction of ours to protect Earth's biodiversity. Today, close to two in three primate species are threatened with extinction (Estrada et al., 2017). What responsibilities do we, the human primate, bear toward other primate species? Read a recent interview article on Inverse, in which world's experts on primate ecology and conservation (including our own Mike Huffman) discuss this issue.