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OCTOBER 25, 2010

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

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JULY 22, 2010

Caught at the airport in Mexico City, he had 18 of these monkeys and two of them were dead. Tags: wildlife smuggling mexico primates endangered species.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

It's a TLC show about humans that adopt monkeys and treat them as their children. Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds. This is seriously weird stuff. Who suffers?

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

“Without giving away the name so we don't get sued, we modeled the diet after a fast-food value meal,” Comuzzie said Thursday at a 10th birthday celebration for the Southwest National Primate Research Center, which maintains the foundation's massive colony of baboons, monkeys and chimps. Tags: primates medical research.

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MARCH 6, 2009

Puerto Rico is using it as a dumping ground for "nuisance" monkeys. Puerto Rico is eager to rid itself of the estimated 2,000 patas and rhesus monkeys that have taken a toll on wildlife and agriculture in the Lajas Valley since escaping from nearby research centers 30 years ago. "We Tags: zoos baghdad primates.

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JUNE 3, 2009

Viral DNA was used to introduce a gene for a green fluorescent protein into monkeys, creating a new line of "glow-in-the-dark" transgenic primates for drug research work. Tags: genetics animal experimentation animal research monkeys. Personally, I don't like messing with anyone's genes.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

I've been hearing nightmare stories about the Primate Center for years. A monkey allowed to starve to death was just one of the complaints noted in a U.S. A monkey allowed to starve to death was just one of the complaints noted in a U.S. The ineptness and cruelty continues, but all in the name of "putting people first."

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Here's a post on the Red, Green and Blue blog about the unspeakable trade in macaque monkeys as research subjects. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. If they think about what's going on and their role in it, then they might actually have to care.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

Reportedly, the monkey returned safely from its flight into space. Of course, this was reported by the Iranian State media so who knows what is true.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

Actor Benicio del Toro has written a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico opposing a new monkey breeding facility. The Puerto Rican actor has penned a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico urging him to halt the construction plans for Bioculture's massive monkey-breeding facility.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

They've been planning to build a facility to breed research monkeys in Puerto Rico for some time. Tags: puerto rico animal research primates. Plus, the horrible pictures I've seen of strays in Puerto Rico. Plus the fact that I personally know the Latin attitude towards animals. Plus, well, you get this picture.

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MARCH 15, 2009

In December, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a warning letter to the primate center for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which regulates treatment of many commercial animals from pet kittens to laboratory guinea pigs. And the center added training and banned one researcher from animal contact in response.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Johannesburg - A Bloemfontein man received a criminal record on Friday for a "backyard experiment" on a pregnant monkey, the NSPCA said. The NSPCA in November 2008 charged Jordaan for his "merciless treatment" of a heavily pregnant vervet monkey. She said the monkey's infant was removed by Caesarean section on October 31.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

I expected fleeting glimpses of chimps if we saw any at all, but my first encounter with these amazing primates in the wild lasted many minutes as our respective groups peered at each other from opposite ends of the road. And that doesn’t even include crossing tracks with Blue Monkey , Red-tailed Monkey , and Tree Hyrax.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

Animal-rights activists are urging Air Canada to stop shipping live monkeys and other animals destined for experimentation, saying the airline can change its tariff rules if it wants. In our opinion, Air Canada is not legally obligated to accept monkeys as cargo," said the opinion written by Lawyers for Animal Welfare.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Not sure anything will come of this, but Dane County is turning its attention to the primate research going on at University of Madison-Wisconsin. Twenty county board supervisors have sent a letter to UW-Madison's Chancellor Biddy Martin, asking her to get directly involved in the ethics of monkey experimentation. From Channel3000.com.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

If we assume (probably incorrectly) that of apes and monkeys, they all descended from a monkey like ancestor, than apes are monkeys. In other words, the group of mammals that includes all the monkeys, which is rather large (and not accurately defined because I’ve not said what a “monkey” is … am I including lemurs?)

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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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OCTOBER 9, 2010

Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. Tags: university of florida animal research activism primates. Wildwood-based activist Camille Marino runs the "Negotiation is Over!"

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

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. From the Los Angeles Chronicle. A protest will be held today at the UCD Quad (1 Shields Ave.),

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Tags: animal research primates NASA.

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MAY 8, 2010

Michelle Basso was a researcher at the University of Wisconsin who worked with primates. Tags: animal research animal enterprise terrorism act primates University of Wisconsin. She testified in favor of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Now, she's been suspended from working with animals.

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MAY 31, 2010

A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. That's why he created rats and monkeys. God created monkeys, and some have to be tested.". This is the way it has to be.

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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 11, 2013

Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. Geladas spend the fist few hours of the morning grooming and socializing at the edge of their cliffs. Photo by Adam Riley.

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MARCH 14, 2010

Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. President Obama promised to eliminate wasteful government spending; funding for animal research is one area that is overdue for reform. As billions flow into this waste, 44 million Americans lack adequate health care coverage.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Did you know that they are more closely related to lemurs than they are to monkeys? Even though they look a bit more like a primate! It was also fun to learn a little bit about the Tarsier when I was choosing my shirt. Each shirt design has a fun trivia fact or two about the featured animal.

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MARCH 5, 2009

The video footage shows monkeys biting themselves and slamming against the bars of small cages. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees. Actually, it's more then allegations. They have video.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

It doesn’t take long for a human child to get too large to be suitable prey for most species, and nearly all raptors learned about being cautious of humans relatively early in our history as a weapon-wielding primate.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The UW has been cited in the past for deficiencies in animal research, including allowing a monkey to starve in 2009. In 2008, it had to return $20,000 in federal research grant money after a finding that it had allowed unauthorized surgeries on primates. John Pippin, a Dallas cardiologist who helped write the complaint.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Game was not plentiful but the highlight was finding a beautiful female Leopard with her cub next to the road, and along the Mago River, a Da Brazza’s Monkey gorging himself on figs. The Ethiopian population of this little known, long-bearded primate forms an isolated population restricted to this area, so this was a very satisfying find.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Think about that for a moment … Anyway, we now know that the forebrain of some birds is more densely packed than mammals (primates and rodents, anyway). Because these “extra” neurons are predominantly located in the forebrain, large parrots and corvids have the same or greater forebrain neuron counts as monkeys with much larger brains.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

For more than a year, we have worked to block NASA’s planned radiation experiments on live squirrel monkeys. NASA had planned to irradiate 30 live squirrel monkeys in a misguided attempt to learn the effects of deep-space radiation. Because of your hard work, these monkeys will not be irradiated or otherwise abused.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. For the full story, g o here to the Vancouver Sun.

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APRIL 19, 2023

On Bush Bush, the main attraction is undoubtedly the pair of native primate species: Red Howler and (Trinidad) White-fronted Capuchin, the latter being critically endangered. We managed to see both species of monkey, though – so we were ultimately well satiated.

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