Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. Plus, are mice comparable to kids (although I would prefer mice subjects to primates who are so much more sensitive)? One of the conclusions? Don't let your mouse watch TV."

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JUNE 11, 2013

Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. Geladas spend the fist few hours of the morning grooming and socializing at the edge of their cliffs. Photo by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2019

If you are into amazing avian-dense trail experiences, you either want to bird Pipeline Road or want to bird it again. But this type of singular experience can be enjoyed in the Old World as well. Although Kibale famously offers a more complete chimpanzee experience, the long views the Royal Mile served up left me plenty satisfied.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For more than a year, we have worked to block NASA’s planned radiation experiments on live squirrel monkeys. We have just learned that the experiments have been cancelled. Due to the basic anatomical, biological, and physiological differences between squirrel monkeys and humans, these experiments were destined to fail.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 21, 2010

An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. Harvard Medical School has not listed those primates as receiving unrelieved pain or distress, Budkie said.

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Critter News

JULY 31, 2010

April Jean Evans was a NASA engineer, but resigned her position in protest over radiation experiments on monkeys. She's living with her brother now and falling into debt, but she is dedicated to working with PETA and other organizations to try to ban primates in experiments. That takes a lot of courage and conviction.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move the chimpanzees—many of them at least 30 years old—to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they can be used in painful, invasive experiments.".

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Critter News

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They include reports on 16 incidences of fractures received by primates and one swine during handling between 2007 and 2009. Six of the primates and the swine are reported to have been euthanised as a result.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. Tags: university of florida animal research activism primates. This is a long article from the Gainesville Sun.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Under the new legislations, experiments on great apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are to be banned and "strict" restrictions set on the use of primates in general. Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.".

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Critter News

MAY 8, 2010

Michelle Basso was a researcher at the University of Wisconsin who worked with primates. Tags: animal research animal enterprise terrorism act primates University of Wisconsin. She testified in favor of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Now, she's been suspended from working with animals.

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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. It's from a Reuters article from last May.I

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Critter News

AUGUST 19, 2010

The contract expires next year and Richardson opposes a plan by the agency to transfer the chimps from the Alamogordo Primate Facility, where they are no longer used for medical testing. The animals can be used again for medical experiments if transferred to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Even among our primate relatives, whoa are generally very smart, “Theory of Mind” is found in only a few species. Over time, as the crow has a second then a third opportunity to extract food from the box, the bird becomes less concerned, as experience has taught it that the mysterious menacing stick isn’t really a threat.

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

Not just birds, but also plants (Colombia boast the most orchid species, too), insects, primates, reptiles. It’s an incredible experience to see these cotton balls on stilts as they hop out from the dense mountain forest underbrush and dance around in front of you. The list goes on and on and on.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

Whittaker had not yet gotten the message that birds don’t smell, her intellectual background was in primate research, but a colleague set her straight, telling her, “Birds don’t have a sense of smell, so I don’t understand why you’d study that anyway?” ” (p.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments. Sincerely, Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates new mexico. They deserve better and we are capable of providing them with better.

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Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

The Humane Society wants 9 chimps that are not being "used" as part of experiments to be released to a sanctuary. Tags: chimpanzees animal research humane society chimp haven new iberia research center primates. This is the same place that was nailed by a Humane Society undercover investigation. percent of our DNA.

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APRIL 14, 2009

He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. Then he and the interviewer describe some of the experiments. His rationale for using primates is that they are not on a "full trajectory" for becoming humans, like young children are.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Animal research is too lucrative for the university/government/pharma complex to risk macaques on YouTube and the public judging the asinine and repetitive experiments many researchers know they live on. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates. For how many years? With what results?

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Critter News

MAY 31, 2010

A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. The plans by India's Vivo BioTech Ltd.

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2009

This is a link to a recent scandal at a primate center in Louisiana. And researching the company she works for makes me wonder whether the clinical trials she sells actually include animal experiments. link] I don't want to go into details, but it's bad. And it's only one of the few we know about. She supports this.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? For all we know, occasional viable crosses between humans and chimpanzees are possible.*

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Critter News

JUNE 17, 2011

If you "humanize" the animal and grow attached, how can you conduct experiments on it? I live in Seattle and, while I don't always agree with PETA, I hate the UW's animal research practices. I don't believe these animals get the quality of care they deserve for the suffering they undergo. You have to objectify them and they suffer for it.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

From the website : Just after sunrise on Halloween, a sole trick or treater descended on the home of University of California-San Francisco primate vivisector Stephen Lisberger. As Stephen and his wife Chieko slept in San Francisco, tubes of superglue were used to fill his front door locks.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. The Ethiopian population of this little known, long-bearded primate forms an isolated population restricted to this area, so this was a very satisfying find.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Besides the birds, the teams were distracted by half a dozen primate species and rare Giant River Otters. Fred Tavares of the Brazilian team had the following to say of his team’s experience in the Amazon, “There are so many birds. The challenge is trying to remember them all!”

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Critter News

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As you might remember, Bioculture—a company that supplies primates to laboratories—plans to capture monkeys from their homes in Mauritius, hold them captive in Puerto Rico, and then sell thousands of their babies for use in painful and deadly experiments around the world.

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OCTOBER 27, 2018

This is why the Yellow Warblers and Baltimore Orioles of summer don’t linger to experience October 31st, and even late fall migrants like kinglets and sparrows move to slightly warmer regions. Lacking the benefit of heated shelters, birds must heed that warning or perish. Hummingbirds.

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Critter News

MARCH 14, 2010

Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. World Week for Animals in Laboratories (April 17-24) exposes their plight and the broken federal research funding system that perpetuates outdated animal experiments at the expense of modern and more humane technologies.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Utilizing a mixed bag of human and primate sex studies, literature, myth, and the Old Testament, Prum muses on the evolution of the penis, the female orgasm, male-female sexual conflict and same-sex relationships. Much of this, as Prum himself admits, is speculative and it is far less compelling than the ornithological chapters.

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