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“Wild Rwanda – Where to watch birds, primates, and other wildlife”

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The “Wild Rwanda – Where to watch birds, primates, and other wildlife” gives you the info how and where to look for both birds and mammals (not just primates, the title is somewhat misleading). Maps aside, “Wild Rwanda – Where to watch birds, primates, and other wildlife” is an exceptionally well written guide.

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Thousands Offered for Primate Freedom

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An animal rights activist has offered $30,000 to anyone who facilitates the freeing of primates, or the end of vivisection, at the University of Kansas, a place cited for numerous animal welfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animal research vivisection primates. He does not condone violent or illegal acts.

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Air Canada To Stop Shipping Lab Primates

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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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Weekend Protest Against the Oregon National Primate Research Center

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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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Internet Exploits Cameroon's Primates

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Illegal wildlife traffickers provide fake credentials to establish that primates are being legitimately offered for sale. Their ads claim that the primate comes with "veterinary health documents, a "permit" from CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) and a year's health care guarantee.

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Excellent Overview of Animal Testing Using Primates

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The controversy over primate research is not going away any time soon, due to the paradox of primate research -- the more similarities between monkeys and humans that are discovered, the more researchers will argue those similarities make it valid to use monkeys in research on human diseases. Tags: animal research primates.

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PETA Enters Alamagordo Primate Controversy

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

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Primate Parts Still Being Used for "Medicinal Purposes"

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I didn't know primates were in demand too. Tags: traditional medicine poaching primates endangered species. It's not just tiger parts and elephant tusks that are being used for so called "traditional" medicinal uses. I knew about bush meat, but not about this. Will it ever end?

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Captive Primate Safety Act Passes House

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The Captive Primate Safety Act was passed by the US House by a vote of 323 to 95. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for sponsoring the measure that will prohibit the trade in non human primates. Tags: primates. Mark Markarian, as usual, has an excellent roundup. Special shout out to Rep.

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Southwest Primate Center "Celebrates" 10 Years

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“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. Oh brother.

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House Bill to Prevent Primates as Pets

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Rahall (D-WV) announced that, at his request, the House of Representatives will consider on Monday, February 23, the Captive Primate Safety Act (H.R. Keeping primates as pets threatens public health and safety, as well as the welfare of the animals. The Captive Primate Safety Act is bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps.

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It's Tough to Report about OHSU's Primate Lab

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I wish the Seattle weeklies would at least try to cover the University of Washington's Primate Center. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. Sounds like there can be a whole lot of drama surrounding the Willamette Week's attempts to report about this place. Here's an example.

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Last Monkey Recaptured by Primate Center

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The last of nine monkeys that escaped from the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro was found at 2 p.m. The last monkey was found on the primate center campus. Tags: animal experimentation primates medical research oregon. Sunday, officials said.

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University of Washington Allows Primate to Starve to Death

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I've been hearing nightmare stories about the Primate Center for years. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report on the UW National Primate Research Center in September. I went to graduate school at the University of Washington here in Seattle. The ineptness and cruelty continues, but all in the name of "putting people first."

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Connecticut Oil Company President Illegally Owns Primate

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Pierce Onthank, the president of an oil and gas company, was charged in January with illegal possession of a primate for keeping a siamang, a type of gibbon that is native to rain forests in Malaysia and Indonesia and can weigh up to 30 pounds and stand 3 feet high. Tags: animal cruelty illegal pets primates us.

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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals

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Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research.

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Primate Breeding Facility Generates Controversy In Puerto Rico Itself

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Tags: puerto rico animal research primates.

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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Another crass attempt at primate slavery for money wrapped in "we put people first" robes." The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation. From the ALDF action alert page.

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Why Is the Federal Government Awarding Contracts to a Company That Was Involved in Smuggling Primates?

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Worldwide Primates Inc. was started by Mathew Block to import primates into the US for animal experimentation. The International Primate Protection League was active in exposing and urging prosecution of this case. According to this website , Worldwide Primates has received $2,411,795.00 from the Dept.

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University of Louisiana Plays Defense on Primate Research

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Tags: animal cruelty exper new iberia research center primates medical research.

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ALF Activists Glue Locks of U Cal Primate Researcher

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From the website : Just after sunrise on Halloween, a sole trick or treater descended on the home of University of California-San Francisco primate vivisector Stephen Lisberger. As Stephen and his wife Chieko slept in San Francisco, tubes of superglue were used to fill his front door locks.

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USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center

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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.

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Pygmy slow loris is the only poisonous primate!

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submitted by /u/trskablog [link] [comments].

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Ghoulish Primate Experiment in South Africa

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This is just horrible and sick, sick, sick. It's at a vomit level with me. From news24.com. 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.

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Bizarre aye-aye primates take nose picking to the extreme

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

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Mammals include Western Lowland Gorilla, Forest Elephant and Forest Buffalo, and eleven diurnal primates. Other primates include Chimpanzee and Putty-nosed Monkey, several duiker antelope species, etc.

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Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting

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An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. Harvard Medical School has not listed those primates as receiving unrelieved pain or distress, Budkie said.

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Another Research Company Accused of Animal Mistreatment

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They include reports on 16 incidences of fractures received by primates and one swine during handling between 2007 and 2009. Six of the primates and the swine are reported to have been euthanised as a result.

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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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The furry kind is represented with 95 species – more than in any other Ugandan park, 10 primates among them, including the Chimpanzee. Kibale Forest National Park The primate capital of East Africa! Other wildlife includes 60 mammal species, 13 primates among them, Chimp tracking, Forest Elephants too.

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EU Bans Use of Great Apes in Animal Research

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Under the new legislations, experiments on great apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are to be banned and "strict" restrictions set on the use of primates in general. Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.".

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Primate Pets

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

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Investigation Demanded for Southwest Lab

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SAEN says previous USDA reports revealed primates have died at the Texas lab from dehydration and hypothermia, while others have simply been "found dead" -- possibly without veterinary care -- after suffering from serious disease conditions that include temperatures up to 105 degrees. Tags: animal research primates Texas.

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Oklahoma State Stops Anthrax Vaccine Testing

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Administrators at OSU decided not to let the project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, commence as the primates being used would be euthanized. An internal faculty committee spent more than a year preparing protocol for the care and use of the primates. Tags: university research animal research primates.

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Help the Almagordo Chimpanzees

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However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move the chimpanzees—many of them at least 30 years old—to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they can be used in painful, invasive experiments.". Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health new mexico.

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Humans AND Monkeys Enjoy Television

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Another commonality between the two species , this one found by the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute. Tags: primate/human similarities animal research monkeys.

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Ex NASA Employee Joins PETA Protest

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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. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates PETA NASA.

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Air Canada Criticized for Transporting Research Monkeys

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The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Air Canada is one of a small number of airlines that continues to transport these primates, Kite said.

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Tensions Mount over University of Florida Animal Research

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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. Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.)

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NASA May End Monkey Radiation Experiments

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Tags: animal research primates NASA.

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Dane County Debates Wisconsin Animal Research

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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. Tags: animal research primates university of madison-wisconsin. From Channel3000.com.

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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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Primate Death at a Charles River Laboratories Facility

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The macaque was not removed before the cage went through the commercial cleaners.

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Alamagordo Chimps Fate Still Uncertain

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

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