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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. Tags: animal research activism oregon national primate research center oregon.

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Some History on the New Iberia Research Center

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Here's some background on the New Iberia Research Center, target of the Humane Society investigation showing alleged chimpanzee abuse. Tags: chimpanzees animal experimentation humane society new iberia research center medical research us.

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Jane Goodall Quote on New Iberia Research Center

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The screaming I heard when chimpanzees were being forced to move toward the dreaded needle in the squeeze cages was, for me, absolutely horrifying.” - Dr. Jane Goodall responding to the Nightline special detailing the mistreatment of hundreds of chimpanzees and other primates at New Iberia Research Center.

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USDA Has Meat Animal Research Center

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Here it is.the US Meat Animal Research Center. Good site to visit to see what they're up to. Obviously, all the pictures will probably be nice and clean.

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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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Humane Society Calls for Refuge for 9 Chimps

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These chimps are currently at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center. I just love the language used by the Research Center's spokesperson. {Dr. Tags: chimpanzees animal research humane society chimp haven new iberia research center primates. percent of our DNA.

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University of Louisiana Plays Defense on Primate Research

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They are at least admitting there are problems with standard operating procedures at New Iberia Research Center. This web page also has a video with a tour of the facility, conducted by center staff. Tags: animal cruelty exper new iberia research center primates medical research.

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New Iberia Inspection Documents Available

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Tags: louisiana animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty new iberia research center animal welfare us.

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PETA Undercover Agent Also Worked in Oregon

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The PETA activist who worked undercover at the University of Utah, and collected video footage of alleged mistreatment of lab animals, was also involved in an operation at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Tags: university research animal research undercover investigation PETA. I say "good for her!"

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New Mexico Governor Opposes Chimp Transfer

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The animals can be used again for medical experiments if transferred to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas. Tags: chimpanzees animal research animal laboratories Texas new mexico. Richardson said NIH appeared to be "holding steadfast" to its plan and he vowed to continue opposing it.

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Baby Gorilla Rescued from Snare in Rwanda

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Fortunately, wildlife staff from the Karisoke Research Center discovered it and it's okay now. Back in February, a three-year-old gorilla was caught in a poacher's snare meant for antelope. Here's the story from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund website.

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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. From the MetroWest Daily News.

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Chimpanzees Mourn Their Dead?

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This is because they quote some guy from the USC Jane Goodall Research Center who throws doubt on the premise. If you jump to the comments at the bottom, people took issue with the implication at the end of the article that Jane Goodall would somehow question this grieving behavior.

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UC Davis Named in Criminal Complaint for Mistreatment of Lab Animals

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The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations. From the Los Angeles Chronicle.

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University of Washington Allows Primate to Starve to Death

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Department of Agriculture (USDA) report on the UW National Primate Research Center in September. From the student newspaper The Daily. A monkey allowed to starve to death was just one of the complaints noted in a U.S.

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Puerto Rico Ships Monkey to.Baghdad?

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Puerto Rico is eager to rid itself of the estimated 2,000 patas and rhesus monkeys that have taken a toll on wildlife and agriculture in the Lajas Valley since escaping from nearby research centers 30 years ago. "We We will give them all the monkeys they want," said Sgt. Angel Atienza, a ranger with the department. "We

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The ‘Alal uses tools, Climate Change Hammers Hawaii

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From Nature : Eben Paxton, of the US Geological Survey’s Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center in Hawaii, and his colleagues analysed data on seven native species of forest bird on Kauai. In a related story, a recent study notes that Kauai, an Island of Hawaii, have lost a lot of birds due to climate change.

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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.

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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. I don't know how I feel about this. These are not subject monkeys, but they are part of the breeding colony. Breeding for what? Sunday, officials said.

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When You Have to Make a Choice About Your Beliefs

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Then I read more about what's happening at the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana. I thought I could stay with the group because she does give me fodder for the blog. And like I said, I love the other people in it. Here's a post from Animals and Politics. Here's my email to my closest friends in the group.

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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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The USDA's extension service, APHIS' National Wildlife Research Center, and the Federal Government's General Accounting Office confirm that lethal controls used by WS do not unduly threaten the well-being of Statewide predator populations.

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Whooping Crane Ancestry

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The blue-blue bird is identified as number 1282 in the studbook, one of the oldest birds in the surviving flock, born at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center on the 2nd of June 1993 and relocated to central Florida on the 20th of April 1994.

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International Bird Rescue Believes “Every Bird Matters”

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The plight of these birds inspired her, along with a handful of other concerned individuals, to do everything they could to save them, and by April of 1971 International Bird Rescue Research Center (now known as International Bird Rescue) was incorporated as a non-profit organization.

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From Today's New York Times

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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.

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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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The number of bird species that have been recorded from Puerto Maldondo to the Tambopata Research Center is around 620 species (all lowland elevations). I worked as a guide and on macaw projects in Tambopata in 2001 and 2002 and the diversity is simply astounding.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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This is all in a day’s work and a typical morning here at the Tambopata Research Center in the Madre de Dios district of Peru where, on behalf of the conservation agency Earthwatch Institute , I have come to volunteer for two weeks for the Tambopata Macaw Project. And that’s just in the lowlands!

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A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia: A Book Review by a Penguin Groupie

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The book is graphically designed so that each wildlife section has a different colored border on top of the text page; species accounts are made very readable by the typography, which utilizes size, color and font to draw the eye to the required information quickly and by the use of color-shaded information boxes.

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A Brief Interview with Greg Miller

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And I want to send out a big “thank you” to every volunteer for breeding bird atlas work over the years, those who took part in Christmas Bird Counts, the research from the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell, USGS Patuxent River Wildlife Research Center, the American Birding Association, my “fans” at work and my manager for putting up (..)

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Big Day Birding in Costa Rica- Strategies and Constraints

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For example, I recall some fine memorable mornings at the Tambopata Research Center where I walked into the forest, sat on a bench, and identified more than 120 species before breakfast, almost all of them by sound. In Costa Rica, similar mornings are possible but you have to be in the right place, right at dawn.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name? Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE).