Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

The video footage shows monkeys biting themselves and slamming against the bars of small cages. Here is a link to the Humane Society. They have video. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees. I couldn't get the video to work for some reason.

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Wayne Pacelle Humane Society Of The United States Louisiana Research 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2011

In Chile I got the best view of an Andean Condor of the entire trip while having a cheeky poo under a monkey puzzle pine on the side of a volcano. Dusky Grasswren has multiple entries as they seem to find a human squatting on a desert mountain fascinating. In the Spanish Pyrenees I saw my first Alpine Chough while making yellow snow.

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Chile Australia Monkeys 2008 191

Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2009

The Argument from Monkeys According to Gerald Carson, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a well-known advocate of vegetarianism and inventor of some eighty ready-to-eat breakfast foods, used to persuade people to adopt vegetarianism in the following way: Dr. Kellog [sic] drew the conclusion “Eat what the monkey eats—our nearest relative.”

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Vegetarian Morals Monkeys Meat 40