Critter News

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The UW has been cited in the past for deficiencies in animal research, including allowing a monkey to starve in 2009. In 2008, it had to return $20,000 in federal research grant money after a finding that it had allowed unauthorized surgeries on primates.

Ferrets 100

Ferrets Washington Cruelty Seattle 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Game was not plentiful but the highlight was finding a beautiful female Leopard with her cub next to the road, and along the Mago River, a Da Brazza’s Monkey gorging himself on figs. The Ethiopian population of this little known, long-bearded primate forms an isolated population restricted to this area, so this was a very satisfying find.

Ethiopia 235

Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 235

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

A single large spider monkey, which might be out of view, equals a large number of lightly built and small birds which may be scattered across the landscape. This is partly because birds are by and large in the business of being seen; This is part of their social system and they tend to be diurnal, plus of course they fly. Myers, P.,

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Ghana has the dubious distinction of being the first country to have lost a major primate species since the Convention on Biological Diversity came into force: Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus was declared extinct in 2000 due to forest destruction. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7%

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 188