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

JUNE 14, 2010

Malaysia, under pressure from animal rights activists, is going to investigate Progenix Labs. Animal rights campaigners have accused the Progenix Research lab, which uses monkeys, dogs, rodents and rabbits for toxicology testing, of poisoning the animals to death. Tags: animal research malaysia.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If an animal has the relevant moral capacities, actually or potentially, then it can be a possessor of rights. However, further research on animals such as whales and dolphins, although seemingly not in respect to monkeys, apes, chimpanzees, may yet reveal that man is not the only animal capable of being a bearer of rights.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 1, 2009

They've been planning to build a facility to breed research monkeys in Puerto Rico for some time. That didn't make it right. Tags: puerto rico animal research primates. Plus, well, you get this picture. Hey, it's a chance for some jobs for the young folks. I'm sorry, but this is not the way to create jobs.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. Research to determine the ability to understand the HCA vs. Research to determine the ability to understand the HCA vs. UCA distinction has shown this to be rare as well. But that’s another story.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

However recent research has shown that they are in fact not baboons, despite superficial appearances, and they are now just called “Gelada”. We were able to spend hours sitting right in amongst super-groups of 500-600 Geladas that just carried on with their daily business in total oblivion to our presence. Male Gelada in his prime.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The house we were staying in was surrounded by Howler Monkeys all night, who really work as a great 5:30 alarm, if that happens to be the time you want to get up! We ran across this Common Back Hawk right alongside the mangrove swamp. With no school the next day, we inquire as to his interest in showing us around the following morning.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.” To the Editor: Re “An Ape Types in Iowa” (column, Aug.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This species seems to frequently join mixed-species flocks – in research in Thailand, the species was found in 20% of the mixed-species flocks. Presumably, Grey-throated Babblers are not very fond of monkeys, especially the (potentially misnamed) Grey Leaf Monkey. On the plus side, it looks rather funny when wet.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

I never researched the resort, imagining that it lacked the amenities my family wanted, but visiting for dinner allowed us to rent its grandeur without forking over the considerable room rates. In fact, we saw two species of monkey, our only sloths, lots of coatis, and my rarest ever mammal sighting—a Jaguarundi —right on site.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

Here’s some data from the famous research project of Manu, Peru, giving biomass in kilograms per hectare. A single large spider monkey, which might be out of view, equals a large number of lightly built and small birds which may be scattered across the landscape. Amphibian’s and Reptiles: 3.4 This is not a surprise.

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

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. Tags: animal cruelty Michael Vick animal rights.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

What is a day of birding without scanning malodorous mud, right? Do your research. Duncan , globe-trotter that he is, was able to recommend the right field guide: The Birds of Hong Kong and South China by Clive Viney, Karen Phillipps, and Lam Chiu Ying, naturally. Frankly, I don’t even know if this is the right species.

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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. You’re read or seen Jurassic Park , right? (No We really are better off with extinct Dodos.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! Researchers then explored surrounding areas and several more colonies were discovered (some of this research, including aerial surveys was supported by funds from the Rockjumper Bird Conservation Fund).

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