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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The Captive Primate Safety Act was passed by the US House by a vote of 323 to 95. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for sponsoring the measure that will prohibit the trade in non human primates. Tags: primates. Mark Markarian, as usual, has an excellent roundup. Special shout out to Rep.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Some of the animals are 60 years old and veterans of the US space program. Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health PETA new mexico. The Governor of New Mexico has already met with the National Institutes of Health to try and stop this transfer with no apparent success.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Animal advocacy groups have been lobbying for this for a while. Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Excellent news! Thank you Air Canada!

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AUGUST 15, 2009

I wish the Seattle weeklies would at least try to cover the University of Washington's Primate Center. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. Sounds like there can be a whole lot of drama surrounding the Willamette Week's attempts to report about this place.

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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.

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JULY 12, 2009

I'm behind on my email and only just read this action alert from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Another crass attempt at primate slavery for money wrapped in "we put people first" robes." states and jurisdictions with regards to the strength of their laws protecting animals. From the ALDF action alert page.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty exper new iberia research center primates medical research.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

I come down hard on Puerto Rico, ever since the scandal in which dogs were being thrown off bridges by an animal control company. Plus the fact that I personally know the Latin attitude towards animals. Tags: puerto rico animal research primates. Plus, the horrible pictures I've seen of strays in Puerto Rico.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Animal welfare watchdog group, Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), has released documents which, it claims, provide evidence that CRO MPI Research has been operating in violation of the US Animal Welfare Act. Six of the primates and the swine are reported to have been euthanised as a result.

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MAY 8, 2010

Michelle Basso was a researcher at the University of Wisconsin who worked with primates. She testified in favor of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Now, she's been suspended from working with animals.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Not sure anything will come of this, but Dane County is turning its attention to the primate research going on at University of Madison-Wisconsin. Tags: animal research primates university of madison-wisconsin. From Channel3000.com.

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OCTOBER 9, 2010

Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.) Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. Meanwhile I have a few random thoughts. Whales are cows. So, for example, humans are apes.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Europe banned the use of great apes in animal testing Wednesday as part of drastically tightened rules to scale back the number of animals used in scientific research. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.". Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates. From the AFP.

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JUNE 5, 2009

A prominent researcher in the specialized field of animal laughter, Jaak Panksepp of Washington State University, said it definitely goes farther back than that. "I Tags: animal behavior primates. I personally think that a credible laughter concept can, and already has been, extended to mammalian species as lowly as the rat.".

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JULY 21, 2009

Tags: animal research pharmaceuticals primates medical research malaysia.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I like this post on Primate Freedom. People who support animal research cloak themselves in altruism. They are only researching on animals because they "put people first." Tags: animal research. Here's part of my response (I'd been thinking about posting these thoughts recently anyway.).People That's a lie.

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JUNE 16, 2011

But that is because we often have the relationship between dinosaurs and birds reversed in our little primate minds; Much of what is bird-like is not exclusive to birds, but rather, to a larger group of dinosaurs. Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world.

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JUNE 11, 2013

Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. Geladas spend the fist few hours of the morning grooming and socializing at the edge of their cliffs. Photo by Adam Riley.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc. Tags: oceans marine animals. But I may not find one.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

It's in response to the arrest of Yale animal technician Raymond Clark for the murder of Annie Le, but makes some important points about animal research. No, for animal researchers the bigger fear from Le's murder than technicians like Clark is the public seeing the heaps of unsupervised government pork behind their Plexiglas curtain.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I don't believe they want an honest dialogue about what they are doing to animals. I don't believe they are "brave" for "standing up" to animal rights activists. I don't believe they are "brave" for "standing up" to animal rights activists.

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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. The activists say Malaysia has no regulations on animal research, which could lead to test subjects being abused.

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MAY 15, 2009

Around 12 million animals are used each year in the European Union (EU) for research purposes. This became clear from a report addressed at the European Parliament (EP) session on May 5–7, which seeks to vote on a directive concerning animal research. I really hope this passes.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.) 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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JANUARY 21, 2014

As I was just starting to examine it, a famous paleontologist who happened to be passing by came over to look, and immediately determine that it was a fossil primate tooth, a very rare find indeed. Once, an Earthwatch volunteer wet-screening on a 2.5 But Smit says that his team was “never really convinced by the anecdotal reports”.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Jordaan allegedly submitted a research application to the University of the Free State, but its animal ethics committee rejected it. Kotze said Jordaan had apparently doing "stem cell research" to help people walk again after a friend of his had been paralysed in an accident. He was told to rewrite and resubmit it.

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MARCH 5, 2009

Other scenes show a newborn chimpanzee being taken from its mother and an adult screaming as a lab worker aims a tranquilizer gun before the animal falls sedated from a shelf to the floor. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees. Here is a link to the Humane Society.

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JUNE 16, 2010

I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. If they are "only" animals, if they are beasts which abstract not, then my comparison is a piece of sentimental foolishness. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. These chimps are healthy and well-fed.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2008

A group calling itself Students and Workers for the Liberation of UCLA Primates burned 3 cars, none of which belonged to the individual they were targeting. ALF is disputing the notion that the wrong cars were hit.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Administrators at OSU decided not to let the project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, commence as the primates being used would be euthanized. An internal faculty committee spent more than a year preparing protocol for the care and use of the primates. Tags: university research animal research primates.

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JUNE 22, 2010

Another commonality between the two species , this one found by the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute. Tags: primate/human similarities animal research monkeys.

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JULY 31, 2010

She's living with her brother now and falling into debt, but she is dedicated to working with PETA and other organizations to try to ban primates in experiments. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates PETA NASA.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. It turns out, for example, that “Theory of Mind” is very rare in the animal kingdom. But that’s another story.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move the chimpanzees—many of them at least 30 years old—to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they can be used in painful, invasive experiments.".

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OCTOBER 9, 2008

Leave the primates out of your inept and outdated science and we will leave you out of our quest for justice.". In two different locales, using small wooden rods we slipped unfired shotgun shells into the mufflers by way of the tailpipes of two of your vans. We also phoned into your media relations desk to let them know about it.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Air Canada is one of a small number of airlines that continues to transport these primates, Kite said.

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