Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2009
I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc. Tags: oceans marine animals. But I may not find one.
Critter News
MARCH 14, 2010
President Obama promised to eliminate wasteful government spending; funding for animal research is one area that is overdue for reform. Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. Tags: animal research Obama. Gundl Bhutani Sarasota.
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.). It was a jarring moment.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Each animal they raise to adulthood is a step away from extinction, with the ultimate challenge to return them to the wild. And on the banks of the Amazon in Brazil, a tamarin expert works to save the tiny primates, which are struggling to survive as bulldozers wipe out their forest homes to make way for new development.
Reddit Animals
MAY 21, 2023
Claim 1: A gorilla can definitely kill any animal below 400 lbs easily and still put up a good fight for those above that weight class The truth: Forest leopards in Africa are known to kill gorillas, and while rare, the current record is skewed heavily in favor of the leopard coming out the better in these encounters.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. It turns out, for example, that “Theory of Mind” is very rare in the animal kingdom. But that’s another story.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 17, 2007
In fact, the Language Research Center at Georgia State University has engaged in continuous social, cognitive and biobehavioral research on primates, including language training and research, since 1981. 10, 2007 Note from KBJ: By what right do we take these animals out of the wild? They're wild animals!
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