Critter News

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A Menlo Park research facility Monday refused to allow a humane society representative to check up on a monkey that bit a female lab worker the day before. Because an animal bite occurred, Menlo Park police alerted the Peninsula Humane Society, which is under county contract to follow up on such incidents. The worker.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

The Baghdad Zoo rakes in some more animals. Puerto Rico is using it as a dumping ground for "nuisance" monkeys. Puerto Rico is eager to rid itself of the estimated 2,000 patas and rhesus monkeys that have taken a toll on wildlife and agriculture in the Lajas Valley since escaping from nearby research centers 30 years ago. "We

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Critter News

JUNE 3, 2009

Viral DNA was used to introduce a gene for a green fluorescent protein into monkeys, creating a new line of "glow-in-the-dark" transgenic primates for drug research work. That would give drug makers a better animal model for preclinical studies as they try to determine a drug's chances of working in people.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Another animal experiment I would not support as a US taxpayer. was one of 12 awarded radiobiology research grants through NASA's Human Research Program, the space agency announced October 27. was one of 12 awarded radiobiology research grants through NASA's Human Research Program, the space agency announced October 27.

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Critter News

MAY 31, 2010

A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. The activists say Malaysia has no regulations on animal research, which could lead to test subjects being abused.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. But the animals suffering behind closed doors at AIIMS must endure this nightmare every day."

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 30, 2023

• Tigers and other big cats are able to mimic other animals, tigers in specific mimic deer, bear, cattle and monkeys and the South American Margay can mimic the call of baby monkeys to lore adults. " • Baluga Whales can also mimic voices, whilst on the topic of mimicry a Baluga often toyed with humans by saying "Out!"

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2010

The controversy over primate research is not going away any time soon, due to the paradox of primate research -- the more similarities between monkeys and humans that are discovered, the more researchers will argue those similarities make it valid to use monkeys in research on human diseases.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 24, 2023

Monkeys, Crows, Octopi and Elephants are the obvious answers but which one is the best for taking our job? Or maybe you are a bit more creative and know a diffrent animal that could have a human-like society? ​ Which one would you WANT to win and what do you think WOULD win?

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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. Please do not advertise to sell your pets.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. So, for example, humans are apes. And smaller. And smaller. Until turkey size or so.

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Critter News

MARCH 10, 2009

The article discusses how scientists are infecting monkeys with a surrogate HIV virus that does not even lead to AIDS, begging the question of why infect them in first place if there's no real simulation of what happens in humans? I recently had a discussion about medical research using animals. Perhaps it was a necessary “evil.”

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Critter News

JULY 26, 2009

experiments were performed on animals last year, a rise of 454,000 or 14% on the previous year, the Home Office said. The increase marks the greatest leap in animal use in medical research since 1986, when the government introduced new auditing procedures. Bad news from the Guardian.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For more than a year, we have worked to block NASA’s planned radiation experiments on live squirrel monkeys. NASA had planned to irradiate 30 live squirrel monkeys in a misguided attempt to learn the effects of deep-space radiation. Because of your hard work, these monkeys will not be irradiated or otherwise abused.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Among all mammals, I think I like monkeys the least. For me, they all fall squarely in the “Uncanny Valley”: “The uncanny valley is a term used to describe the relationship between the human-like appearance of a robotic object and the emotional response it evokes. ” This includes Tibetan macaques.

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

The video footage shows monkeys biting themselves and slamming against the bars of small cages. Other scenes show a newborn chimpanzee being taken from its mother and an adult screaming as a lab worker aims a tranquilizer gun before the animal falls sedated from a shelf to the floor. Here is a link to the Humane Society.

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Critter News

JANUARY 20, 2012

Animal advocacy groups have been lobbying for this for a while. Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Excellent news! Thank you Air Canada!

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. by Marc Bekoff.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. We don’t have monkeys, or wildebeest, or salmon here. In many ways, that is exactly what happened.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. But that’s another story. Just eat the food.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. This has resulted in their populations returning to natural levels and their fear of humans being curtailed. Especially in the dry season, bands join together forming grazing herds, which can number up to 1,200 animals (although 500-600 is more normal.) Photo by Adam Riley.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

You can buy some extra time by presoaking the animal in a basin of ice water.)" For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. It "guarantees humane treatment?"

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands. That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. One of the birds most affected by this is Cassin’s Auklets. Ifrasound waves are cool.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

For me, the focus on culture and tradition is basically an excuse for "anything goes" when it comes to animals. Are the kids cooking monkey, cat, dog, alligator or turtle? I wonder how much they learn about the animals other cultures eat. (In But I bet anything doesn't go. Any other factories on the agenda?

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Comuzzie, a nationally prominent obesity researcher and geneticist at Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, recently induced metabolic syndrome — risk factors associated with the human epidemic of diabetes and heart disease — by making the baboons' high-fat diet tastier and adding a sweet drink flavored with high-fructose corn syrup.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

The first edition, A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics , was published in 1989. Kricher has expanded subject coverage and updated, revised, re-arranged, and rewritten text.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 5, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Monkeys Think, Moving Artificial Arm as Own ” (front page, May 29): The brain really is a fascinating organ. I was also intrigued to read that “in previous studies, researchers showed that humans who had been paralyzed for years could learn to control a cursor on a computer screen with their brain waves.”

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2009

The Argument from Monkeys According to Gerald Carson, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a well-known advocate of vegetarianism and inventor of some eighty ready-to-eat breakfast foods, used to persuade people to adopt vegetarianism in the following way: Dr. Kellogg, a superb publicist, kept a morose chimpanzee, which he used for a stunt.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

But if we want to continue to throw a monkey-wrench into this all too cut and dried scenario, there’s also the fact that the Old World vultures had a foothold in North America up until the Neogene about 2.5 Vultures, Human Evolution, and Windmills – Greg Laden, 10,000 Birds. millions years ago. I and the Bird vultures'

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Gelada lip flare My favorite Ethiopian animal, the Gelada used to be considered a baboon but is actually the last survivor of an ancient group of grass-eating monkeys that used to occur throughout Africa, the Mediterranean and India.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. 10, 2007 Note from KBJ: By what right do we take these animals out of the wild? 10, 2007 Note from KBJ: By what right do we take these animals out of the wild?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans. The Bay of Islands is a very popular area for tourists, both those looking for natural history and for human history.

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

Is what he did consciously to his pitbulls that much worse than what we do unconsciously to animals every day? Some of us forget that dogs are mere animals, and that animal mistreatment is as American as Apple iPods. Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. None of us is pure. I think we have it backward.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 6, 2009

The Argument from Speciesism If there is some doubt whether the arguments from monkeys and from glass walls should be considered moral arguments, there can be no doubt about the moral import of the argument from speciesism. Moreover, since it is morally wrong to kill and eat human beings, it is morally wrong to kill and eat animals.

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