Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

The Commission had also proposed scaling back experiments on the 12,000 primates used each year, so they could only be used if the survival of their species was at stake or during an unexpected outbreak of life-threatening disease in humans.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Researchers tickled babies and six different kinds of apes, quantified their giggles, and found that the patterns fit a classic evolutionary tree. Those patterns hint at the ancient origins of human hilarity and suggest that other social species - including apes, dogs and rats - really, truly laugh as well.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

Their scientific name is Theropithecus gelada, the former word meaning “beast-ape” in Greek. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. This has resulted in their populations returning to natural levels and their fear of humans being curtailed. Gelada lip flare and yawn. Photo by Adam Riley. Photo by Adam Riley.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

From what I recall, chimpanzees share at least 95 percent of human DNA, although the number that floats around the most is 98.6 If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

No one in the room–neither dog nor human–can tell which cup hides the biscuit. Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. “Humans are unique. Hare could run a very profitable shell game.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. Dolphins are so smart that scientists think they should be treated as "non-human persons" and as such it is "morally unacceptable" to use or kill them.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? Finally, there's an alert from Susan Hargreaves, who is a humane educator here in South Florida (via Trish). See Tim Gorski's (from Rattle the Cage) 2 minute video about humane. which includes a poll. Thank you, Susan Hargreaves.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 10, 2012

Wigs are made for them from real human hair and then applied strand by strand so that the puppets have a more realistic hairline. Most recently, Heinrichs designed the Burton-directed, live-action feature “Dark Shadows.”. Their costumes are all sewn with miniature stitches to keep in scale.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

To the Editor: Re “An Ape Types in Iowa” (column, Aug. 9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.”

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time. Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

"There is no longer dispute among serious scientists that humans aren’t the only animals who have the capacity to suffer physically and mentally. Elephants, great apes, orcas, dogs, cats, and many other animals can experience depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and compulsive disorders.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2007

But this means that the apes appeal to animal-rights activists for precisely the wrong reason—namely, that they look like people and behave like people, while making no moral demands. They, unlike human beings, “return our affection regardless of our merits.” To live with a human being is hard; to live with a mere animal is easy.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

Normally functioning adult human beings are in category 2. Nonhuman animals (even apes) are in category 3. Nelson says that we have duties to both animals and humans. Our duties to humans are grounded either in their possession of interests or in their possession of autonomy. Category 1 is empty.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2009

Then Dr. Kellogg would offer a banana, which the ape munched with evident enjoyment. Even if it were true that meat-eating is unnatural for humans (in some nonmoral sense), it would not follow that it is wrong. The doctor would toss a juicy beefsteak to the suspicious animal.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

The next quote is quite the bummer, and it says more about humans than vultures, but I couldn’t resist bringing a bit of existentialism into a post about vultures. It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. find the context.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. I knew a guy who studied depression in a group of people living in the Andes, where periods of depression appeared to come on when the humans detected infrasound caused by distant thunderstorms.

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Critter News

APRIL 27, 2010

I believe that great apes do have that capacity. It makes it even harder to subject chimps to experiments if you keep discovering these human similarities. A couple of studies imply that chimpanzees may mourn their dead. I believe they do. I've read of the mountain gorillas in Virunga grieving over the loss of a silverback.

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