Critter News

MARCH 10, 2009

The article discusses how scientists are infecting monkeys with a surrogate HIV virus that does not even lead to AIDS, begging the question of why infect them in first place if there's no real simulation of what happens in humans? Tags: animal experimentation medical research monkeys. It’s just a question of WILL.

Medical Research 100

Medical Research Medical Research Monkeys 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2010

In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!" Animal rights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU.

Research Center 100

Research Center Oregon Primates Research 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

Like a Northern Goshawk on steroids with fancy plumage, these birds can take small monkeys, opossums, ibis, toucans, macaws, and other medium-sized animals of the rainforest. Oh, and yes, some do also kill our local “turkey”, the Great Curassow. This curassow is great.

Costa Rica 178

Costa Rica Eagles West Virginia Opossums 178

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. “Arrow-Marked Babblers move around in gangs of a dozen or so, like troops of monkeys or wild dogs, constantly chattering among themselves. This can lead to birds being poisoned. If that sounds stupid, that is because it is.

Zimbabwe 147

Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

This one addresses the decreasing number of dogs and cats being experimented on and, without mentioning it, discusses speciesism and our affection for dogs--pet dogs particularly (and especially purebreds)--which leads to our revulsion with the idea of snatching, vivisecting and killing them. Part V: Me and My Monkey.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. From Science Daily : Crows have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks, and they can do so spontaneously, according to new research. Ifrasound waves are cool.

Science 151

Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. millions years ago.

California Condor 179

California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 179

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

In her book, “ On a Wing and a Prayer, “ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.”

Panama 100

Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. After sensing that no other monkeys saw him tumble, he marched off, back high, head and tail up, as if nothing had happened. Photo by Paul Huber.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. In university labs nationwide, scientists inflict spinal-cord injuries on dogs and cats, inject rats with carcinogens, test dangerous drugs on monkeys, and do all kinds of evil things to guinea pigs in the name of scientific research.

Michael Vick 100

Michael Vick Guinea Pigs Animal Cruelty Animal Abuse 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. A foot deep by some accounts, it killed what life was left in the forest. And, then there were the droppings.

Mauritius 101

Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

Red-billed Blue Magpies are occasionally eaten by snub-nosed monkeys. The gory details are outlined in a paper describing that the monkeys eat the head of the bird first but reject the wings. In fact, websites such as this one seem to offer package tours just to kill woodcocks.

Monkeys 147

Monkeys Birds South Korea Hunting 147

Animal Ethics

MAY 6, 2009

The Argument from Speciesism If there is some doubt whether the arguments from monkeys and from glass walls should be considered moral arguments, there can be no doubt about the moral import of the argument from speciesism. Moreover, since it is morally wrong to kill and eat human beings, it is morally wrong to kill and eat animals.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Speciesism Killing 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

A paper describes how a Golden Snub-nosed Monkey (which looks a bit like somebody had kicked Donald Trump in the nose, which in itself may probably not be such a bad idea) ate three Chinese Babax chicks from a nest in Shennongjia National Park.

Birds 147

Birds Mammals St. Louis Monkeys 147