Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? 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?
Animal Person
MARCH 23, 2009
Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? which includes a poll. He also notes that evidence that welfarism is misguided is that even the sealers are for it.
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Animal Person
JANUARY 6, 2010
The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. 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.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Hare suspects that the evolutionary pressures that turned suspicious wolves into outgoing dogs were similar to the ones that turned combative apes into cooperative humans. If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. Others lashed out and were killed.
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. We know that he hunts and kills them for pleasure and entertainment; but has he lived with one? Perhaps if he did, he wouldn’t say such foolish things.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
He introduces ideas and slowly builds on them, staring with the outbreak of Hendra in people and horses in Queensland before moving the story to his own experiences of great ape die-off when he was covering Michael Fay’s Megatransect in the Congo Basin. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
What is sad is that Travis' mother was also shot and killed for aggressive behavior. The bizarre incident in April 2001 began when the trio of apes broke out of Mike and Connie Casey's compound, the Missouri Primate Foundation. This animal was seriously compromised by being in unnatural conditions and given unnatural substances.
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