Critter News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
Dear Senator Murray, I have read articles in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times about the chimpanzees at Holloman Air Force Base. This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2014
The socioecology of Monk Parakeets: Insights into parrot social complexity by Elizabeth Hobson, Michael Avery, and Timothy Wright, is a new paper in Auk , with this abstract: In many species, individuals benefit from social associations, but they must balance these benefits with the costs of competition for resources. This: Just like people.
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Critter News
AUGUST 23, 2009
I've been reading a lot about threatened elephants and primate populations in Africa and wondered about lions. This article talks about the specific situation in Kenya. Tags: africa Kenya lion endangered species. One rarely hears about how they are doing. But, unfortunately, they are in trouble too.
Critter News
JUNE 5, 2009
And the link below takes you to an article with the cutest orangutan baby enjoying himself. 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. Tags: animal behavior primates. I've seen it. From Cosmiclog at MSNBC.
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 They also called for a feasibility study before agreeing to a ban on capturing wild primates to use in laboratories. will try not to smash my computer screen in frustration.
Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2009
Look at all these incidents that have occurred there (listed in the Montreal Gazette article in the above link).I Incidents include a hippo who died in transport from Denver and a Turkmenian markhor, a species of wild goat, hung itself at the zoo after becoming trapped by a rope. A zookeeper had left the knife behind in the exhibit.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 7, 2016
Have op-ed article writers Peter Singer and Karen Dawn not seen the beautiful natural habitat at the L.A. This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed. In my opinion, neither Harambe nor the child should ever have been at the zoo. Michelle Nadon, Aurora, Canada To the editor: Bars? Many sanctuaries do not permit breeding.
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