Critter News

JANUARY 20, 2012

Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Unfortunately, the CTA is requiring Air Canada to continue shipping primates to laboratories while it considers the issue. "We

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Critter News

JULY 31, 2010

April Jean Evans was a NASA engineer, but resigned her position in protest over radiation experiments on monkeys. She's living with her brother now and falling into debt, but she is dedicated to working with PETA and other organizations to try to ban primates in experiments. That takes a lot of courage and conviction.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 5, 2009

PETA organized protests to stop these stupid radiation experiments on spider monkeys. Tags: animal research Stupid primates NASA. The purpose is to determine how astronauts would fare on the way to Mars. We can't even get out of Afghanistan and we're going to Mars. Give me an effing break.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A Menlo Park research facility Monday refused to allow a humane society representative to check up on a monkey that bit a female lab worker the day before. Tags: animal research humane society primates. If the incident is insignificant, then why deny access? From the San Jose Mercury News.

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JUNE 21, 2016

A result of this evolutionary constraint is that later organisms that build complex neural processing organs (brains) to do advanced brainy things have to work with a cell type that is only fed with one kind of sugar, that requires a fair amount of coddling to operate, and that takes up a lot of space (one cell per bit of information).

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JUNE 27, 2018

Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. One, it requires that organisms be placed in relation to each other by means of characters (features) that were evolutionarily meaningful and that properly sorted out relationships. And with that, Willi invented Kladistics, which we now call Cladistics.

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