Critter News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
Europe banned the use of great apes in animal testing Wednesday as part of drastically tightened rules to scale back the number of animals used in scientific research. Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates. From the AFP. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.".
Critter News
JUNE 4, 2009
Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. The Commission had also proposed scaling back experiments on the 12,000 primates used each year, so they could only be used if the survival of their species was at stake or during an unexpected outbreak of life-threatening disease in humans.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2013
Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. Their scientific name is Theropithecus gelada, the former word meaning “beast-ape” in Greek. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. Gelada lip flare and yawn.
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