Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? But chimpanzees can abstract. They have certainly committed no crimes.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. Picture being a Blackpoll Warbler being born in the boreal forests of Alaska.

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APRIL 15, 2015

Ghana has the dubious distinction of being the first country to have lost a major primate species since the Convention on Biological Diversity came into force: Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus was declared extinct in 2000 due to forest destruction. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7%

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