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Humane Society Calls for Refuge for 9 Chimps

Critter News

These chimps are currently at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center. Jeff Rowell, NIRC director, in an e-mail Wednesday} "said the nine remaining animals are being housed as a family group at the center with access to indoor-outdoor caging. Videos showed mistreatment of the lab animals.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.

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