Critter News

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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. Tags: chimpanzees animal cruelty Stupid us. She actually thought he was her son?? Cruel and insane.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

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? Tags: animal experimentation animal 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. 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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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. which includes a poll. He also notes that evidence that welfarism is misguided is that even the sealers are for it. That was a lot, I know.

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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. If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. Others lashed out and were killed.

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