Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. 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.

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

The socioecology of Monk Parakeets: Insights into parrot social complexity by Elizabeth Hobson, Michael Avery, and Timothy Wright, is a new paper in Auk , with this abstract: In many species, individuals benefit from social associations, but they must balance these benefits with the costs of competition for resources. This: Just like people.

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

Activists from ALF are claiming responsibility for a fire that caused an estimated $300,000 damage to Scientific Resources International. The concept of animals existing as "resources" is utterly despicable, and we vow to do all in our power to run businesses like these into the ground. look forward to supplying your primate needs.

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APRIL 15, 2015

They are large passerines and research has shown them to be an ancient basal offshoot from the passerine tree (at approximately the same time as rockjumpers, were even placed in the same family until quite recently). The timber industry-led assault on this resource is building towards ecological catastrophe.

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