Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

These highly intelligent animals should be PERMANENTLY retired and a PERMANENT sanctuary created for them. This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments. Please ensure that the chimpanzees stay in Alamogordo.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. 11 Responses to “Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011)&# Duncan Mar 14th, 2011 at 2:33 am Takahe in Karori Sanctuary! I suspect though that once we get past the Ides of March (beware!) What was your best bird of the weekend?

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Animal Rescues: Feeling Compassion for Those in Need.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

Several colleagues and I recently conducted a purely observational study to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in chimpanzees previously used in experimental research and now living in a sanctuary in Louisiana. Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience.

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