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Almagordo Chimp Story Hits the New York Times

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

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Primate Pets

Animal Ethics

Here is a New York Times story about people who keep primates as pets.

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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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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

10,000 Birds

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). Curious as to the plume’s origins, the American immediately asked if he could keep it.

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Travis the Chimp is the Victim

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It's 1) a gory story with 2) the bizarre tie-in to the New York Post's inexplicable use of Travis' image in a cartoon about the stimulus package. The bizarre incident in April 2001 began when the trio of apes broke out of Mike and Connie Casey's compound, the Missouri Primate Foundation. What were they thinking?)

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In fact, the Language Research Center at Georgia State University has engaged in continuous social, cognitive and biobehavioral research on primates, including language training and research, since 1981. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.”

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Fur Free Fashion Show Winners Announced

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This years’ judges for the competition were: Sophie Uliano, author of New York Times bestseller Gorgeously Green; Summer Rayne Oaks, model, spokesperson, and expert for Discovery Network's Planet Green; Brita Belli, editor of E/The Environmental Magazine; and Josh Dorfman, author and host of The Lazy Environmentalist on Sundance Channel's The Green.

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