Critter News
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. Oh brother.
Critter News
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. The plans by India's Vivo BioTech Ltd. The project is still in the planning phase.
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Critter News
JUNE 5, 2009
Those patterns hint at the ancient origins of human hilarity and suggest that other social species - including apes, dogs and rats - really, truly laugh as well. I personally think that a credible laughter concept can, and already has been, extended to mammalian species as lowly as the rat.". Tags: animal behavior primates.
Critter News
JUNE 4, 2009
Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. The EU's executive Commission last year proposed a range of measures to improve the welfare of the 12 million vertebrate animals used in experiments each year, mostly mice and rats. It's from a Reuters article from last May.I
Critter News
OCTOBER 24, 2009
Plus, are mice comparable to kids (although I would prefer mice subjects to primates who are so much more sensitive)? However, it involved exposing rats to chemicals at levels that humans are usually not exposed to. Whether intentionally or not, the title of the article catches the frivolity of the research."Don't
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2011
For instance, I can lay my hands on data for primates and rodents (because I’ve collected those data for research) but I don’t have comparable data for bovids (just selected data) and zero data for birds (in spreadsheets on my computer).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
Ghana has the dubious distinction of being the first country to have lost a major primate species since the Convention on Biological Diversity came into force: Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus was declared extinct in 2000 due to forest destruction. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7%
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