Critter News
AUGUST 25, 2009
I'm so glad I have this blog and other web outlets to highlight these kinds of stories. Here's a post on the Red, Green and Blue blog about the unspeakable trade in macaque monkeys as research subjects. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. I think they just want to live in happy denial.
Critter News
MARCH 15, 2009
This blogger, Earle Holland at Oregon State University, doesn't seem to believe the allegations coming out about the New Iberia Primate Center in Louisiana. He is the assistant vice president for research communications in the Office of University Relations. Here's his post about it.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice. 1204026109).
Animal Person
APRIL 14, 2009
He then says he goes to "exceptional lengths" to make ensure the physical and psychological welfare of the primates he uses, "except when it's absolutely necessary" to harm them. And then comes a brief conversation about Singer and how we wouldn't use young humans, which Jentsch says is precisely why we should use primates.
Critter News
OCTOBER 12, 2009
I posted on this blog about quitting because of the New Iberia scandal in Louisiana in which the Humane Society found primates being abused. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. She is a data tech for a clinical testing company (for profit by the way.)
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2012
which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. A while back I asked the question, How much bird is there, anyway? I had noted that if you took a quick look around you’d think there were a lot of birds and very few mammals.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
Blog readers sharing their house with a noisy teenager may consider replacing him or her with a Brown-headed Parrot , given this statement on a pet website : “Brown-Headed Parrot boasts another very desirable trait – these are very quiet parrots! Can’t say that it is a particularly obvious name from seeing the bird.
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