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From Today's Los Angeles Times

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As an intelligent primate, I’d much rather be an ambassador for my species in a secure environment—served the best food and tended to by top-notch veterinarians—than take my chances in a national park where poverty and corruption result in little or no protection for the non-human residents. Lisa Edmondson, Los Angeles

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Almagordo Chimp Story Hits the Los Angeles Times

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Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates National Institutes of Health new mexico.

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Write to Your Congressional Representatives to Help the Almagordo Chimps

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Dear Senator Murray, I have read articles in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times about the chimpanzees at Holloman Air Force Base. Sincerely, Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates new mexico. Here is the text we sent to Congressman Jim McDermott and Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray.

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UC Davis Named in Criminal Complaint for Mistreatment of Lab Animals

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From the Los Angeles Chronicle. The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations.