Critter News

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Their is a proposal to ban testing on apes in the EU. Europe's environment chief plans to ban laboratory tests on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans -- in a clampdown on animal testing by the drugs industry and other laboratories. Tags: europe apes.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

I do not claim to have the answer, but I think it is certainly worthwhile to raise the question: Why, exactly, all over the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison? For all we know, occasional viable crosses between humans and chimpanzees are possible.*

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 18, 2011

The book tells the story of a very special sanctuary where chimpamzees were retired after working as test subjects in labs. His storytelling was so wonderful, and of course the subject matter was so interesting, that I really couldn’t wait to pick the book up. Especially when there are better alternatives and such few benefits.

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APRIL 15, 2014

We test the hypothesis that these suites of traits have evolved independently on each island via natural selection pressures from one of two predator regimes – birds-only and birds + snakes. Birds Bird evolution character displacement conservation biology mumeration'

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

It’s no coincidence that the two species that pass Hare’s pointing test also share a profound cross-species bond. But scientists had carried out few studies to test those beliefs–until now. Kaminski put Rico to a rigorous test and confirmed that the dog could learn names for more than 200 toys, balls and other items.

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Critter News

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. Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates. From the AFP. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.".

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