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Are animals naturally “cruel”, or is it a behavior learned from humand?

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I know feral dogs do sport hunts and there was a recorded primate war, but as far as I’m aware, the feral dogs were either directly owned or descended by dogs owned by humans, and the primate war was started by human interferance of food being given to the primates by researchers.

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Primate Breeding Facility Generates Controversy In Puerto Rico Itself

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I come down hard on Puerto Rico, ever since the scandal in which dogs were being thrown off bridges by an animal control company. Tags: puerto rico animal research primates. Plus, the horrible pictures I've seen of strays in Puerto Rico. Plus the fact that I personally know the Latin attitude towards animals. That didn't make it right.

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How smart are parrots?

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Parrots are smarter than Nebo the dog. ” The dog’s name came from the direction of the enclosed front porch of the tin-roofed concrete block home of my friend Bwana Ndege, in Isiro, Zaire. ” The old woman was calling the dog, in Swahili. Bwana Ndege’s African Grey Parrot had fooled the dog again.

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Uncovered Reports Show Three Research Labs Fined for Violations

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2) Charles River Laboratories, Sparks and Reno, NV: Two primates undergoing surgical procedures were handled improperly. A dog also had to be euthanized after a gauze square was left in its abdominal cavity during a previous surgery and caused an obstruction. One subsequently had to be euthanized.

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Malaysian Official Says God Made Animals for Testing

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to set up a biotechnology center in southern Malacca state has come under fire by activists because it will conduct tests on dogs and primates to make medicines. The plans by India's Vivo BioTech Ltd. The activists say Malaysia has no regulations on animal research, which could lead to test subjects being abused.

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Do Animals Laugh?

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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 personally think that a credible laughter concept can, and already has been, extended to mammalian species as lowly as the rat.".

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Ocean Advocacy and Animal Rights

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I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc. If you are eating a fish, you are still eating a living thing. But I may not find one.