Critter News
JULY 12, 2009
Another crass attempt at primate slavery for money wrapped in "we put people first" robes." The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation. From the ALDF action alert page.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2013
Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. A harem male grooms one of his females. Photo by Adam Riley. Photo by Adam Riley. Portrait of a male Gelada.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Whittaker had not yet gotten the message that birds don’t smell, her intellectual background was in primate research, but a colleague set her straight, telling her, “Birds don’t have a sense of smell, so I don’t understand why you’d study that anyway?” ” (p.
Animal Person
APRIL 14, 2009
He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. Then he and the interviewer describe some of the experiments. His rationale for using primates is that they are not on a "full trajectory" for becoming humans, like young children are.
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. The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
But, reading this in the time of the “Me Too” movement, I tend to think that the ‘danger’ lies in giving scientific credibility to the transformative power of the female, whether she be bird, mammal, or human. Much of this, as Prum himself admits, is speculative and it is far less compelling than the ornithological chapters.
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