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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.".
Critter News
NOVEMBER 10, 2008
Their is a proposal to ban testing on apes in the EU. But some animal welfare groups and researchers accused the European Union of masking weak regulation with empty gestures, as no great apes have been used in EU research for six years. Tags: europe apes. Is this a solution to a problem that doesn't exist?
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Critter News
JUNE 4, 2009
Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers.
Critter News
MARCH 7, 2009
Tags: chimpanzees animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty medical research. End the use of chimpanzees in animal experiments. It's unconscionable.
Critter News
OCTOBER 30, 2009
She's the new Director of Public Affairs and she's already started lobbying for the Great Ape Protection Act, which would phase out invasive medical research on chimpanzees. Tags: chimpanzees activism apes medical research us. For you international readers, she's Dennis Kucinich's wife.
Critter News
JUNE 5, 2009
There are researchers out there who say that they do. Researchers tickled babies and six different kinds of apes, quantified their giggles, and found that the patterns fit a classic evolutionary tree. Tags: animal behavior primates. I certainly think they can laugh and have fun. I've seen it. From Cosmiclog at MSNBC.
Critter News
MARCH 29, 2009
Hicks, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), describes the plight of the apes and other forest creatures in a new e-book to be released this week. Tags: chimpanzees poaching congo endangered species.
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