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European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research

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Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers. They have no qualms about what they do.

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Chimpanzees Mourn Their Dead?

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I believe that great apes do have that capacity. I've read of the mountain gorillas in Virunga grieving over the loss of a silverback. It makes it even harder to subject chimps to experiments if you keep discovering these human similarities. Tags: chimpanzees jane goodall animal research. I believe they do.

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EU Bans Use of Great Apes in Animal Research

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Europe banned the use of great apes in animal testing Wednesday as part of drastically tightened rules to scale back the number of animals used in scientific research. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.". From the AFP.

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