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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
The Great Elephant Census found that populations of Savanna Elephants Loxodonta africana have fallen by 30% between 2007 and 2014 (around 144,000 animals poached or population shrunk at a rate of 8% a year, a level higher than their reproduction rate; source https://peerj.com/articles/2354.pdf
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Animal Ethics
AUGUST 17, 2007
Georgia State and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development still support language training and cognitive research with four chimpanzees, and do other cognitive research work with resident populations of macaques and rhesus monkeys. 10, 2007 Note from KBJ: By what right do we take these animals out of the wild?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
The Nonggang Babbler ‘s claim to fame is having only been discovered in 2008 (as a meaningless reference, it should be added that the first iPhone was released in 2007, one year earlier). Presumably, Grey-throated Babblers are not very fond of monkeys, especially the (potentially misnamed) Grey Leaf Monkey.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
For birds, this guide follows the Clements list (2007, with revisions through 2013), so it is mostly compatible with your eBird app. The endemics of the Albertine Rift Mountains are marked in bold, 10 mammals and 26 birds.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
million hectares in 2007. I have seen both Long-tailed and Tree Pangolins , Greater Cane Rat , several species of monkey and duiker, Royal Antelope , Pel’s Anomalure (a giant flying squirrel), huge casqued hornbills, Great Blue Turacos and numerous other birds and mammals for sale along the roadsides.
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