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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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Stupid TLC Show Called "My Monkey Baby"

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Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds. The individual primate and the species that is depleted for this "trade." Tags: Stupid entertainment primates endangered species.

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University of Utah Cited by Dept. of Agriculture

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A kitten died from dehydration as a result of too much medication, individual primates were neglected for days at a time, mice and Guinea pig cages were found to be overcrowded, and calves may have been exposed to painful situations for too long, but University of Utah officials maintain that none of the most recent animal-testing violations, released (..)

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USHS Alleges Animal Abuse at the University of Louisiana New Iberia Research Laboratory

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The Humane Society of the United States released the video scenes Wednesday, saying that’s only part of the documentation of what it claimed were 338 violations of federal law and policy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Laboratory.

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Physicians Committee Accuses University of Washington of Cruelty to Ferrets

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Dennis Mayock, a professor of pediatrics and medical director of the UW's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. says only about 13 percent of the pediatric-residency programs in the United States use animals for such training. The complaining group, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, based in Washington, D.C.,

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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

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which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. In short, the answer is that in the United States there are 20 billion birds at the end of the breeding and fledging season, which gets winnowed down to 10 billion by the following early spring.

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ALF Activists Burn Company That Sells Animals for Research

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From the site: In the early morning hours of May 18th, four incendiary devices were planted at Scientific Resources International, a supplier of non-humyn primates for use in vivisection labs all over northern Nevada. look forward to supplying your primate needs. Please contact us for a written price quotation.we

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