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After the recent Gorilla vs Grizzly thread I think this is needed: Gorilla myth busting

Reddit Animals

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.

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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

10,000 Birds

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. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves.

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Travis the Chimp is the Victim

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What is sad is that Travis' mother was also shot and killed for aggressive behavior. 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. This animal was seriously compromised by being in unnatural conditions and given unnatural substances.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

10,000 Birds

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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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

Critter News

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? 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?

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On Dolphins as a Gateway to Animal Rights

Animal Person

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. Dolphins are so smart that scientists think they should be treated as "non-human persons" and as such it is "morally unacceptable" to use or kill them.

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Melange Monday

Animal Person

Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? which includes a poll. He also notes that evidence that welfarism is misguided is that even the sealers are for it.

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