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USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center

Critter News

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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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.” 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.