Critter News

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Deng Deng National Park extends 580 square kilometres (224 square miles), an area about the size of Chicago, and will help conserve some 600 western lowland gorillas, one of four sub- species of the great ape, said the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, which helped in the park’s creation.

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

Today's nonhuman apes don't represent earlier stages in human development. Our common-ape like ancestor lived about 15 million years ago. Citing abilities such as nonhuman great apes' ability to learn human languages suggest that animal rights advocates seek nonhuman participation in human society.

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Critter News

JANUARY 27, 2009

There are only an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 90 percent of them in Indonesia, said Serge Wich, a scientist at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa. Tags: orangutans. Most live in small, scattered populations that cannot take the onslaught on the forests much longer.

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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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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? Tags: animal experimentation animal research. For all we know, occasional viable crosses between humans and chimpanzees are possible.*

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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? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Stephanie has been dealing with the usual "dogs-love-to-run" and "it's-part-of-our culture" and "this-is-what-they're-bred-to-do" crowd, which is a thankless, enervating and maddening job.

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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. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. What do you think?

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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. That’s a skill that seems to be limited to great apes and humans. Tags: guest post animal behavior dogs. See pictures of Presidents and Their Dogs.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2009

Then Dr. Kellogg would offer a banana, which the ape munched with evident enjoyment. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. The doctor would toss a juicy beefsteak to the suspicious animal. The chimp would examine it and quickly slam the meat right back at him. Kellog [sic] drew the conclusion “Eat what the monkey eats—our nearest relative.”

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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. Tags: chimpanzees animal cruelty Stupid us. In addition to running a business that supplied simians for parties, the couple bred and sold chimps, sources say. Cruel and insane.

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Critter News

APRIL 27, 2010

I believe that great apes do have that capacity. Tags: chimpanzees jane goodall animal research. 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. Heck, even my cats visibly missed old Charlotte who died last August.

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