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JUNE 22, 2010
Tags: primate/human similarities animal research monkeys. Another commonality between the two species , this one found by the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute.
NatGeo WILD: Rebel Monkeys
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MARCH 28, 2010
Rebel Monkeys ! But for a gang of monkeys making their home at the Galta Temple in the Indian city of Jaipur, it’s an easy life — lounge by the sacred pool, groom your friends and accept handouts from worshippers paying respect to the Hindu Monkey God Hanuman. Tags: NatGeo tv. But their happy days may be numbered.
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Gross Monkey Experiment
Critter News
MAY 24, 2010
testing a vaginal gel on monkeys. Tags: animal research macaque. Now this is pretty gross. I understand it's for HIV prevention, but still. Disturbing. The gel was applied vaginally to three pigtailed macaques twice a week for seven weeks. A fourth animal received a placebo gel in the same manner.
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Mexican Male Caught Smuggling Titi Monkeys
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JULY 22, 2010
Caught at the airport in Mexico City, he had 18 of these monkeys and two of them were dead. Tags: wildlife smuggling mexico primates endangered species.
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Monkeys Work as Waiters in Japan
Critter News
NOVEMBER 24, 2008
Restaurants are always hit hard during economic downturns, but one restaurant in Japan has a novel approach to cutting costs: replace the wait staff with monkeys. The monkeys only work two hours a day, but bring in tourists from around the globe. Tags: Stupid Japan monkeys.
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Monkey Rescued in India
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
A monkey was rescued from a factory in India where it was being held in captivity. Poor monkey! Tags: India animal cruelty macaque zoochosis. It's an adult male macaque suffering from zoochosis. It's the first time I've ever heard the term. Here's what I'd like to know.if
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Monkeys Stolen from UK Wildlife Park
Critter News
NOVEMBER 11, 2008
I can't imagine the trauma the older monkey is going through. Thieves have stolen two monkeys from an enclosure at a wildlife park, police said today. The female squirrel monkeys were snatched after raiders broke into the Cotswold Wildlife Park, near Burford, Oxfordshire, last night. Horrible and cruel. I hope they are returned.
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Stupid TLC Show Called "My Monkey Baby"
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
It's a TLC show about humans that adopt monkeys and treat them as their children. Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds. This is seriously weird stuff. Who suffers?
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Puerto Rico Ships Monkey to.Baghdad?
Critter News
MARCH 6, 2009
Puerto Rico is using it as a dumping ground for "nuisance" monkeys. Puerto Rico is eager to rid itself of the estimated 2,000 patas and rhesus monkeys that have taken a toll on wildlife and agriculture in the Lajas Valley since escaping from nearby research centers 30 years ago. "We Tags: zoos baghdad primates.
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Last Monkey Recaptured by Primate Center
Critter News
APRIL 6, 2009
These are not subject monkeys, but they are part of the breeding colony. The last of nine monkeys that escaped from the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro was found at 2 p.m. Nine Japanese macaque monkeys got loose Friday after their keeper left the cage unlocked and they figured out how to open the door.
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100 Now We Have Glow-in-the-Dark Monkeys!
Critter News
JUNE 3, 2009
Viral DNA was used to introduce a gene for a green fluorescent protein into monkeys, creating a new line of "glow-in-the-dark" transgenic primates for drug research work. Tags: genetics animal experimentation animal research monkeys. That way you can always find them in the dark! (Oh, Oh, by the way, drug researchers love this.
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Thai Police Rescue Monkeys Bound for Restaurant
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Thai Highway Police in Sa Kaeo province have rescued 24 baby crab-eating monkeys, arresting a Thai driver and five undocumented Cambodians attempting to smuggle the endangered species to Cambodia, where they were destined for cooking pots in.Chinese specialty restaurants in Cambodia.
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Benicio del Toro Writes Letter Opposing Monkey Breeding Facility in Puerto Rico
Critter News
OCTOBER 5, 2009
Actor Benicio del Toro has written a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico opposing a new monkey breeding facility. The Puerto Rican actor has penned a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico urging him to halt the construction plans for Bioculture's massive monkey-breeding facility. Tags: animal experimentation.
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Monkeys Beat Cruel Trainer in China
Critter News
DECEMBER 18, 2008
Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty china monkeys. If only they could have escaped to a better life.
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NASA Funds Radiation Experiments on Monkeys
Critter News
NOVEMBER 7, 2009
In Bergman's study, according to Discovery News, 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys would be subjected to radiation and periodically tested to gauge how exposure affects performance in a variety of learned tasks. Tags: animal experimentation NASA. I believe that money to explore space can go to help an impoverished nation.
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NASA May End Monkey Radiation Experiments
Critter News
NOVEMBER 20, 2010
Tags: animal research primates NASA. Not sure yet, but it could happen per this action alert from Physicians for Responsible Medicine.
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Parrot, Parrot, Parrakeet, Hummingbird
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AUGUST 16, 2015
By tagging the Parrot and monitoring the area with remote cameras, scientists hope to learn more about this species and how to keep it safe. If you follow baseball, you’ve probably heard of the “ rally squirrel ” and the infamous “ rally monkey.” The bird is so rare and elusive that it was thought to be extinct.
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Excellent Overview of Animal Testing Using Primates
Critter News
APRIL 18, 2010
The controversy over primate research is not going away any time soon, due to the paradox of primate research -- the more similarities between monkeys and humans that are discovered, the more researchers will argue those similarities make it valid to use monkeys in research on human diseases. Tags: animal research primates.
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Malaysian Official Says God Made Animals for Testing
Critter News
MAY 31, 2010
A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. That's why he created rats and monkeys. God created monkeys, and some have to be tested.". This is pretty vile in my opinion.
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Dane County Debates Wisconsin Animal Research
Critter News
FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Twenty county board supervisors have sent a letter to UW-Madison's Chancellor Biddy Martin, asking her to get directly involved in the ethics of monkey experimentation. WISC-TV has learned that a public debate on the ethics of monkey research will be held on campus in March, keeping alive a touchy campus debate that's been brewing for years.
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Mini-Pigs Identified by EU as Potential Lab Subjects
Critter News
NOVEMBER 10, 2010
A research project into the feasibility of using miniature pigs in laboratories concluded they are better suited for testing toxins, drugs and chemicals than dogs and monkeys. Tags: europe animal research mini-pigs pigs.
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UC Davis Named in Criminal Complaint for Mistreatment of Lab Animals
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2009
SAEN said UC Davis is responsible for the deaths of at least 14 monkeys over an 11-month period from June of 2008 to April of this year, and that the deaths violated federal law. The primate center at UC Davis has been cited several times after monkeys were killed in preventable lab mishaps.
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SRI Denies Access to the Humane Society
Critter News
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
A Menlo Park research facility Monday refused to allow a humane society representative to check up on a monkey that bit a female lab worker the day before. Tags: animal research humane society primates. If the incident is insignificant, then why deny access? From the San Jose Mercury News.
USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center
Critter News
MARCH 15, 2009
The warning cited three errors in veterinary care, including a serious 2007 incident where a pregnant monkey died when a researcher failed to notice she was having a troubled labor. The two other incidents involved a sponge being left in a monkey after surgery and a surgery performed on the wrong monkey.
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Animal Testing Center to Open in Malaysia
Critter News
APRIL 5, 2010
Disturbing picture of monkey being injected. Tags: animal research malaysia. Caution on this story.
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Protest To Stop Pointless Radiation Experiments
Critter News
DECEMBER 5, 2009
PETA organized protests to stop these stupid radiation experiments on spider monkeys. Tags: animal research Stupid primates NASA. The purpose is to determine how astronauts would fare on the way to Mars. We can't even get out of Afghanistan and we're going to Mars. Give me an effing break.
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Critter News
JULY 31, 2010
April Jean Evans was a NASA engineer, but resigned her position in protest over radiation experiments on monkeys. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates PETA NASA. That takes a lot of courage and conviction.
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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money
Critter News
MARCH 14, 2010
The result: antiquated, unnecessary and ridiculous experiments like those identified recently by In Defense of Animals, including studies of cocaine-addicted quail, nipple preference in nursing infant monkeys, toy preference in young monkeys, and effect of high-fat diets on mice (it made them fat and sleepy). Gundl Bhutani Sarasota.
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US a Hub for Eatin' Them Endangered Species
Critter News
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
Be warned there's a horrific picture of a cooked monkey head in this article.) Tags: wildlife trafficking us endangered species. And here I've been yelling at China all this time. (Be From Alternet.org. The United States is one of the world's largest, if not the largest, consuming nations for wildlife products.
Tensions Mount over University of Florida Animal Research
Critter News
OCTOBER 9, 2010
She's accusing him of being a "monkey mutilator" and plans protests with other animal-rights activists at the UF football game today and at the researcher's neighborhood in the coming weeks. Tags: university of florida animal research activism primates. website, where she posted the researcher's address and a picture of his home.
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Critter News
JUNE 24, 2010
The lab, which is run by the Britain-based Alpha Biologics, uses monkeys, dogs, rodents and rabbits for toxicology testing. Tags: animal research malaysia. Veterinary services department director Abdul Aziz Jamaluddin said there was no evidence that Progenix abused animals and that it would not order the facility to be closed.
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British-Funded Lab Under Investigation in Malaysia
Critter News
JUNE 14, 2010
Animal rights campaigners have accused the Progenix Research lab, which uses monkeys, dogs, rodents and rabbits for toxicology testing, of poisoning the animals to death. Tags: animal research malaysia.
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Wildlife Rescued in Trinidad and Tobago
Critter News
MAY 16, 2009
Over 1,000 animals were rescued, including 500 bull finches and 300 picoplats, The rescued wildlife also included monkeys, parrots, macaws and other species from Venezuela. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime trafficking. There was also over 400 lbs of "wild meat" (I don't want to know what that could be!).
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100 Is Medical Research on Animals REALLY the Only Way?
Critter News
MARCH 10, 2009
The article discusses how scientists are infecting monkeys with a surrogate HIV virus that does not even lead to AIDS, begging the question of why infect them in first place if there's no real simulation of what happens in humans? Tags: animal experimentation medical research monkeys. It’s just a question of WILL.
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Weekend Protest Against the Oregon National Primate Research Center
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2010
In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!" Tags: animal research activism oregon national primate research center oregon.
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NOVEMBER 11, 2010
Not only is it made from 100% cotton, so it’s very soft and comfortable, but all of their tags, packaging, etc. Did you know that they are more closely related to lemurs than they are to monkeys? Tags: people helping animals reviews. I chose the Philippine Tarsier Tee, which is a very fun shirt indeed!
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Critter News
DECEMBER 1, 2009
They've been planning to build a facility to breed research monkeys in Puerto Rico for some time. Tags: puerto rico animal research primates. Plus, the horrible pictures I've seen of strays in Puerto Rico. Plus the fact that I personally know the Latin attitude towards animals. Plus, well, you get this picture.
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100 Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam
Critter News
MARCH 22, 2010
Over the last two years, authorities have discovered 57 cases of trafficking in wild animals involving more than 7,612 individuals including monkeys and Tibetan bears and elephant tusks. Tags: vietnam exotic meats wildlife trafficking bush meat endangered species.
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Appeal Denied for Six Activists Convicted Under AEPA
Critter News
OCTOBER 17, 2009
Huntingdon used mostly mice and rats , but also some dogs, monkeys, fish and guinea pigs , in its research in New Jersey. Tags: huntingdon animal enterprise protection act. The activists posted the home addresses of Huntingdon officials and contractors on the group's Web site, and harassment, vandalism and violence sometimes followed.
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UK Records Increase in Animal Testing
Critter News
JULY 26, 2009
The growth in animal experiments reflects an expansion in biomedical research in Britain and is driven by advances in genetics and the development of new drugs that must be tested rigorously in monkeys before they are allowed to be given to humans. Tags: animal experimentation UK drug companies medical research biotech.
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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals
Critter News
AUGUST 25, 2009
Here's a post on the Red, Green and Blue blog about the unspeakable trade in macaque monkeys as research subjects. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. If they think about what's going on and their role in it, then they might actually have to care.
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100 PETA Busts University of Utah Research Lab
Critter News
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
Failed to provide minimal enrichment for animals -- companionship for monkeys, balls for pigs, paper towels for mice -- to reduce emotional stress. Tags: universities animal research utah undercover investigation PETA. Certainly a case to follow.
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Critter News
JULY 19, 2009
This could be read as anything from a lab conducting medical research on monkeys to a gas station that sells beef jerky. Tags: animal enterprise terrorism act. From Alternet.org.all CAPS are my emphasis Under the law, an animal enterprise includes any business that deals in animal research or uses or sells animal products.
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