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FEBRUARY 14, 2021

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Critter News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

She's the new Director of Public Affairs and she's already started lobbying for the Great Ape Protection Act, which would phase out invasive medical research on chimpanzees. Tags: chimpanzees activism apes medical research us. For you international readers, she's Dennis Kucinich's wife.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 16, 2021

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. It's from a Reuters article from last May.I will try not to smash my computer screen in frustration.

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Critter News

JULY 24, 2009

Bushmeat is horrific, especially the trade in apes. To me, eating apes of any kind is akin to human cannibalism. The Last Great Ape Organization in Cameroon is only one of them, but it's the only law enforcement nongovernmental organization in Africa.

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2009

End the use of chimpanzees in animal experiments. It's unconscionable.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2012

Current trends indicate that African ape populations will decline by an additional 80% in the next 30 to 40 years. CHIMPANZEE Challenge Fact #1: Chimpanzees are endangered: Just 100 years ago, roughly 1 million chimpanzees lived in the lush rainforests of equatorial Africa. See CHIMPANZEE, Save Chimpanzees!

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

Today's nonhuman apes don't represent earlier stages in human development. Our common-ape like ancestor lived about 15 million years ago. Citing abilities such as nonhuman great apes' ability to learn human languages suggest that animal rights advocates seek nonhuman participation in human society.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Researchers tickled babies and six different kinds of apes, quantified their giggles, and found that the patterns fit a classic evolutionary tree. Those patterns hint at the ancient origins of human hilarity and suggest that other social species - including apes, dogs and rats - really, truly laugh as well.

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Reddit Animals

MAY 21, 2023

Here's another account of the very same attack More gorilla toes and a mention that the leopard in the above account made a habit of killing gorillas This is the only account of a silverback killing a leopard, and it dies in the process of doing so A leopard attacks a male gorilla in broad daylight, is thrown off, and proceeds to hunt down the (..)

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

So, for example, humans are apes. If we assume (probably incorrectly) that of apes and monkeys, they all descended from a monkey like ancestor, than apes are monkeys. and contains apes is referenced to indicate the complete clade.

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Critter News

APRIL 27, 2010

I believe that great apes do have that capacity. A couple of studies imply that chimpanzees may mourn their dead. I believe they do. I've read of the mountain gorillas in Virunga grieving over the loss of a silverback. Heck, even my cats visibly missed old Charlotte who died last August.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Deng Deng National Park extends 580 square kilometres (224 square miles), an area about the size of Chicago, and will help conserve some 600 western lowland gorillas, one of four sub- species of the great ape, said the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, which helped in the park’s creation.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 18, 2011

Another way you can help right now (if you are American) is by writing your congressman in support of the Great Ape Protection Act, which not only will save chimpanzees from life in laboratories, but will also save millions of tax payer dollars! Also, you can learn more about Fauna Sanctuary at faunafoundation.org.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

Elephants, great apes, orcas, dogs, cats, and many other animals can experience depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and compulsive disorders. "There is no longer dispute among serious scientists that humans aren’t the only animals who have the capacity to suffer physically and mentally.

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Critter News

JANUARY 27, 2009

There are only an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 90 percent of them in Indonesia, said Serge Wich, a scientist at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa. Over the years, Galdikas has fought off loggers, poachers and miners, but nothing has posed as great a threat to her "babies" as palm oil.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2014

Trips apes Birding Borneo' There were lots of other amazing birds and animals, but don’t take my word for it, head out there and check it out for yourself! Peace is a river to yourself in the evening.

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2009

Hicks, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), describes the plight of the apes and other forest creatures in a new e-book to be released this week. This conclusion is drawn by Cleve Hicks, based on observations made during his 2007-2008 survey of towns, villages and forests in the Buta-Aketi region of the DRC.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The bizarre incident in April 2001 began when the trio of apes broke out of Mike and Connie Casey's compound, the Missouri Primate Foundation. What is sad is that Travis' mother was also shot and killed for aggressive behavior. But see what kind of conditions SHE was in.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time. Our findings follow many other studies demonstrating mental anguish in traumatized animals.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

To the Editor: Re “An Ape Types in Iowa” (column, Aug. 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. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.”

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

I do not claim to have the answer, but I think it is certainly worthwhile to raise the question: Why, exactly, all over the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison? For all we know, occasional viable crosses between humans and chimpanzees are possible.*

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

It’s not like it’s hard to flip through books of old bird illustrations and find things we can’t quite account for , but these just don’t generate the press that a hairy ape-monster would. Birds cryptids Eskimo Curlew Ivory-billed Woodpecker'

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2013

In human evolution, teeth did a two step from typical ape-sized teeth to mega-teeth to teeth small for an ape.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 10, 2012

Most recently, Heinrichs designed the Burton-directed, live-action feature “Dark Shadows.”. Classic horror films from the 1930s, like “Frankenstein” and “Dracula,” inspired several of the character names—Victor, Elsa Van Helsing, Edgar “E” Gore and Mr.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

He introduces ideas and slowly builds on them, staring with the outbreak of Hendra in people and horses in Queensland before moving the story to his own experiences of great ape die-off when he was covering Michael Fay’s Megatransect in the Congo Basin.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 1, 2010

However, further research on animals such as whales and dolphins, although seemingly not in respect to monkeys, apes, chimpanzees, may yet reveal that man is not the only animal capable of being a bearer of rights.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. The next quote is quite the bummer, and it says more about humans than vultures, but I couldn’t resist bringing a bit of existentialism into a post about vultures. find the context.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Hare suspects that the evolutionary pressures that turned suspicious wolves into outgoing dogs were similar to the ones that turned combative apes into cooperative humans. That’s a skill that seems to be limited to great apes and humans. See pictures of Presidents and Their Dogs. Evolving Gifts. “Humans are unique.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

At some point perhaps I’ll write up for you how the evolution of humans, specifically the ape-human split, and Galapagos bird evolution are the same thing in this regard. Birds Bird evolution character displacement conservation biology mumeration'

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. From Science Daily : Crows have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks, and they can do so spontaneously, according to new research.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Then we stared some more at the bird that seemed in no rush to go anywhere and at least mildly curious in the gibbering apes beneath it. We stared through binoculars and I released my scope from its perch on the tripod and handheld some digiscoped shots at an angle too high for my straight-through scope to handle on the tripod.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? Stephanie has been dealing with the usual "dogs-love-to-run" and "it's-part-of-our culture" and "this-is-what-they're-bred-to-do" crowd, which is a thankless, enervating and maddening job. which includes a poll.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2007

But this means that the apes appeal to animal-rights activists for precisely the wrong reason—namely, that they look like people and behave like people, while making no moral demands. By abusing evolutionary biology in this way, we are able to read back the sophisticated conduct of people into the animal behavior that prefigures it.

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Animal Apes Morals Animal Rights Movement 40

Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2009

Then Dr. Kellogg would offer a banana, which the ape munched with evident enjoyment. The doctor would toss a juicy beefsteak to the suspicious animal. The chimp would examine it and quickly slam the meat right back at him. Kellog [sic] drew the conclusion “Eat what the monkey eats—our nearest relative.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

Their scientific name is Theropithecus gelada, the former word meaning “beast-ape” in Greek. They have also been known as Lion Baboons and Bleeding-heart Baboons, due respectively to the males’ lion-like cape and tail, and the bare patch of red skin on both sex’s chests. Gelada lip flare and yawn. Photo by Adam Riley.

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