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Connecticut Oil Company President Illegally Owns Primate

Critter News

Pierce Onthank, the president of an oil and gas company, was charged in January with illegal possession of a primate for keeping a siamang, a type of gibbon that is native to rain forests in Malaysia and Indonesia and can weigh up to 30 pounds and stand 3 feet high. Tags: animal cruelty illegal pets primates us.

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Disaster in the Sundarbans

10,000 Birds

Endangered Masked Finfoot photographed in Malaysia (Wikimedia Commons). And more than 80 percent of the animal protein in the Bangladeshi diet comes from fish, generally of freshwater varieties. They are working to clean up oil without protection and the children are falling sick. Still, something is missing from this picture.