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JUNE 22, 2010
Tags: primate/human similarities animal research monkeys. Another commonality between the two species , this one found by the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute.
NatGeo WILD: Rebel Monkeys
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MARCH 28, 2010
Rebel Monkeys ! But for a gang of monkeys making their home at the Galta Temple in the Indian city of Jaipur, it’s an easy life — lounge by the sacred pool, groom your friends and accept handouts from worshippers paying respect to the Hindu Monkey God Hanuman. Tags: NatGeo tv. But their happy days may be numbered.
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Gross Monkey Experiment
Critter News
MAY 24, 2010
testing a vaginal gel on monkeys. Thirty minutes after each gel application, the animals were exposed to SHIV, for a total of 14 "challenges." A fourth animal received a placebo gel in the same manner. Tags: animal research macaque. I understand it's for HIV prevention, but still. Disturbing.
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Monkey Rescued in India
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
A monkey was rescued from a factory in India where it was being held in captivity. According to the article, "Zoochosis is a term used by animal rights activists in reference to the degrading effect of zoos on animals that have been kept in captivity over a long period of time. Poor monkey!
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Puerto Rico Ships Monkey to.Baghdad?
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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Monkeys Stolen from UK Wildlife Park
Critter News
NOVEMBER 11, 2008
I can't imagine the trauma the older monkey is going through. Thieves have stolen two monkeys from an enclosure at a wildlife park, police said today. The female squirrel monkeys were snatched after raiders broke into the Cotswold Wildlife Park, near Burford, Oxfordshire, last night. I hope they are returned.
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Last Monkey Recaptured by Primate Center
Critter News
APRIL 6, 2009
These are not subject monkeys, but they are part of the breeding colony. The last of nine monkeys that escaped from the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro was found at 2 p.m. Nine Japanese macaque monkeys got loose Friday after their keeper left the cage unlocked and they figured out how to open the door.
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Stupid TLC Show Called "My Monkey Baby"
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
It's a TLC show about humans that adopt monkeys and treat them as their children. Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds. This is seriously weird stuff. Remember Travis?
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100 Now We Have Glow-in-the-Dark Monkeys!
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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Monkeys Beat Cruel Trainer in China
Critter News
DECEMBER 18, 2008
Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty china monkeys. If only they could have escaped to a better life.
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Benicio del Toro Writes Letter Opposing Monkey Breeding Facility in Puerto Rico
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.
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NASA Funds Radiation Experiments on Monkeys
Critter News
NOVEMBER 7, 2009
Another animal experiment I would not support as a US taxpayer. In Bergman's study, according to Discovery News, 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys would be subjected to radiation and periodically tested to gauge how exposure affects performance in a variety of learned tasks. Tags: animal experimentation NASA.
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Malaysian Official Says God Made Animals for Testing
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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Excellent Overview of Animal Testing Using Primates
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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Dane County Debates Wisconsin Animal Research
Critter News
FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Twenty county board supervisors have sent a letter to UW-Madison's Chancellor Biddy Martin, asking her to get directly involved in the ethics of monkey experimentation. WISC-TV has learned that a public debate on the ethics of monkey research will be held on campus in March, keeping alive a touchy campus debate that's been brewing for years.
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Tensions Mount over University of Florida Animal Research
Critter News
OCTOBER 9, 2010
Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.) Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. This is a long article from the Gainesville Sun.
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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money
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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UC Davis Named in Criminal Complaint for Mistreatment of Lab Animals
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2009
sponsored by SAEN {Stop Animal Exploitation Now}, an Ohio-based animal research watchdog group. SAEN said UC Davis is responsible for the deaths of at least 14 monkeys over an 11-month period from June of 2008 to April of this year, and that the deaths violated federal law.
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100 Animal Testing Center to Open in Malaysia
Critter News
APRIL 5, 2010
Disturbing picture of monkey being injected. Tags: animal research malaysia. Caution on this story.
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Key AETA Supporter Suspended Over Animal Welfare
Critter News
MAY 8, 2010
She testified in favor of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Now, she's been suspended from working with animals. From Current.com She was recently suspended from working with animals, a “rare move prompted by what officials called a ‘clear pattern’ of problems with animal welfare.”
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100 NASA May End Monkey Radiation Experiments
Critter News
NOVEMBER 20, 2010
Tags: animal research primates NASA. Not sure yet, but it could happen per this action alert from Physicians for Responsible Medicine.
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100 Is Medical Research on Animals REALLY the Only Way?
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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UK Records Increase in Animal Testing
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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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals
Critter News
AUGUST 25, 2009
Here's a post on the Red, Green and Blue blog about the unspeakable trade in macaque monkeys as research subjects. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. If they think about what's going on and their role in it, then they might actually have to care.
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100 Animal Enterprise Terrorism Something to Be Concerned About
Critter News
JULY 19, 2009
Here's a short analysis of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act which makes me wonder if what we do on this blog could be construed as falling under it. From Alternet.org.all CAPS are my emphasis Under the law, an animal enterprise includes any business that deals in animal research or uses or sells animal products.
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100 What if the Public Truly Probed Animal Research Funding?
Critter News
OCTOBER 8, 2009
It's in response to the arrest of Yale animal technician Raymond Clark for the murder of Annie Le, but makes some important points about animal research. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates. This is a great short column by Martha Rosenberg. At a tax payer cost of $472,370?
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Mini-Pigs Identified by EU as Potential Lab Subjects
Critter News
NOVEMBER 10, 2010
The mini-pig, darling of celebrities’ handbags, may have had its bacon Sunday after the EU earmarked it as the laboratory test animal of the future. A research project into the feasibility of using miniature pigs in laboratories concluded they are better suited for testing toxins, drugs and chemicals than dogs and monkeys.
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SRI Denies Access to the Humane Society
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. The worker.
Ex NASA Employee Joins PETA Protest
Critter News
JULY 31, 2010
April Jean Evans was a NASA engineer, but resigned her position in protest over radiation experiments on monkeys. It was a PETA protest outside her work location that alerted her to the experiments in the first place.showing that any action in defense of animals may have impacts on people that we don't even realize.
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100 USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center
Critter News
MARCH 15, 2009
In December, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a warning letter to the primate center for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which regulates treatment of many commercial animals from pet kittens to laboratory guinea pigs. And the center added training and banned one researcher from animal contact in response.
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100 Malaysia Approves Controversial Research Lab
Critter News
JUNE 24, 2010
The investigation cleared the animal lab. MALAYSIA will not shut down a controversial British-funded animal testing lab after investigations showed that the animals were not exposed to torture, a senior official said on Thursday. Tags: animal research malaysia. From Straits Time.
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British-Funded Lab Under Investigation in Malaysia
Critter News
JUNE 14, 2010
Malaysia, under pressure from animal rights activists, is going to investigate Progenix Labs. Malaysia is considering shutting down a controversial British-funded animal testing lab if there is evidence of cruelty there, the goverment's top veterinary official said on Sunday. Tags: animal research malaysia.
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Protest To Stop Pointless Radiation Experiments
Critter News
DECEMBER 5, 2009
PETA organized protests to stop these stupid radiation experiments on spider monkeys. Tags: animal research Stupid primates NASA. The purpose is to determine how astronauts would fare on the way to Mars. We can't even get out of Afghanistan and we're going to Mars. Give me an effing break.
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Weekend Protest Against the Oregon National Primate Research Center
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Animal rights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!" From Oregonlive.
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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam
Critter News
MARCH 22, 2010
Dr Scott Roberton, head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that hunting wild animals for meat and trafficking had been happening in many countries, especially developing ones. In Viet Nam, hunting and trade in wild animals had been alarming, he said.
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Rare Tee Clothing
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NOVEMBER 11, 2010
Not only is it made from 100% cotton, so it’s very soft and comfortable, but all of their tags, packaging, etc. Did you know that they are more closely related to lemurs than they are to monkeys? Each shirt design has a fun trivia fact or two about the featured animal. Tags: people helping animals reviews.
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Appeal Denied for Six Activists Convicted Under AEPA
Critter News
OCTOBER 17, 2009
Six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted at a 2006 trial in New Jersey of conspiracy to violate the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The law, since revised, aimed to protect animal research laboratories from illegal, sometimes violent protests. It was a 2-1 decision by the US Court of Appeals.
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100 Primate Breeding Facility Generates Controversy In Puerto Rico Itself
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. That didn't make it right.
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Wildlife Rescued in Trinidad and Tobago
Critter News
MAY 16, 2009
Over 1,000 animals were rescued, including 500 bull finches and 300 picoplats, The rescued wildlife also included monkeys, parrots, macaws and other species from Venezuela. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime trafficking. There was also over 400 lbs of "wild meat" (I don't want to know what that could be!).
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100 PETA Busts University of Utah Research Lab
Critter News
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
An undercover PETA investigator shot hours of footage of alleged mistreatment of animals. It's a remarkably banal list of ordinary events in an animal-care facility." Failed to ensure that experiments minimized discomfort, distress and pain to the animals. s vice president for research. Certainly a case to follow.
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100 University of Washington Allows Primate to Starve to Death
Critter News
JANUARY 12, 2010
A monkey allowed to starve to death was just one of the complaints noted in a U.S. This incident can be traced to a failure to weigh the animal at regular intervals. Tags: animal research University of Washington USDA. The ineptness and cruelty continues, but all in the name of "putting people first."
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100 On Teaching Children
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 Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. But I bet anything doesn't go.
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100 Southwest Primate Center "Celebrates" 10 Years
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
“Without giving away the name so we don't get sued, we modeled the diet after a fast-food value meal,” Comuzzie said Thursday at a 10th birthday celebration for the Southwest National Primate Research Center, which maintains the foundation's massive colony of baboons, monkeys and chimps. Tags: primates medical research. Oh brother.
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