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.
Critter News
APRIL 6, 2009
These are not subject monkeys, but they are part of the breeding colony. Breeding for what? The last of nine monkeys that escaped from the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro was found at 2 p.m. Workers baiting cages with apples recaptured eight animals Friday and Saturday. Sunday, officials said.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 1, 2009
I come down hard on Puerto Rico, ever since the scandal in which dogs were being thrown off bridges by an animal control company. Plus the fact that I personally know the Latin attitude towards animals. They've been planning to build a facility to breed research monkeys in Puerto Rico for some time.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
As an older Chills song is titled, “Familiarity breeds contempt” (And no, I do not think NZ band The Chills originally came up with this phrase – I can use google as well as any other person and thus know that the expression familiarity breeds contempt was first used in English in the 1300s by Geoffrey Chaucer.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2019
However, we did note signage that said if you travelling with an animal you would have to pay for twelve passengers and travel alone with your animal! There are also wild boars and macaque monkeys and you are advised to not rustle plastic bags, because they associate the noise with food. Shorebirds on Pulau Sekudu.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2021
Wikipedia has a paragraph on their interesting mating system : “Home ranges are occupied by breeding groups of 3 or 4 males with 3 or 4 females. And the last notable animals we saw were a troupe of Rhesus Macaques on the roadside. I still do not like monkeys very much. I side with the HBW on this issue. So undignified.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2021
On the breeding grounds of the north, a small bird flies into the night, takes a bearing for the south, gains altitude and flies onward. In Costa Rica, they can take the form of everything from toucans (think crows with giant shark inspired beaks) to herons and monkeys. Migrant birds make an incredibly perilous journey, twice per year.
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