Critter News

MARCH 27, 2009

Environmental Protection Agency is reducing its reliance on animal testing to assess human risk of chemical toxicity and will instead focus more heavily on the tools made possible by advances in molecular biology, genomics and computational modeling. For a long time there will be a need for animal testing," he said.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Their is a proposal to ban testing on apes in the EU. Europe's environment chief plans to ban laboratory tests on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans -- in a clampdown on animal testing by the drugs industry and other laboratories. Is this a solution to a problem that doesn't exist?

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Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

This is the same place that was nailed by a Humane Society undercover investigation. The Humane Society wants 9 chimps that are not being "used" as part of experiments to be released to a sanctuary. They may as well be centrifuges or test tubes to these people. Videos showed mistreatment of the lab animals. percent of our DNA.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. For the full story, g o here to the Vancouver Sun.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 16, 2023

One of their most unique qualities is their self-awareness, which is a sign of higher cognitive abilities that are usually reserved for humans and a few other species. In this article, we'll explore the fascinating research on elephant self-awareness, how it's been tested, and what it tells us about their amazing minds.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 16, 2022

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Critter News

JUNE 12, 2010

This is a continuation of an earlier post about why I question animal testing. But universities and scientists are not always there working for pure learning or the improvement of humanity. There may be a business component there as well.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

We don’t have a cat so we didn’t get to test it out, but judging by all the fun videos we watched, it really seems to make cats happy! You can find out more information and see photos and videos of other happy cats enjoying the game on the website, www.ipadgameforcats.com. Do any of you have this game?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

First, let’s start with the good: Scientific testing of drones near birding hotspot Cape May, NJ has been postponed to avoid messing with Red Knots and Piping Plovers (like the cutie above that Corey photographed there a few years back). (On Sea World San Diego just welcomed the world’s first “test-tube” penguin.

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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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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2010

The controversy over primate research is not going away any time soon, due to the paradox of primate research -- the more similarities between monkeys and humans that are discovered, the more researchers will argue those similarities make it valid to use monkeys in research on human diseases.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2015

Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. The amount of yawns increased significantly when the test birds could see others—whether real, or on a screen—also yawning. (Our first victim appears to be the Ring-billed Gull above, photographed by Corey.)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. This is my first season with the ranch, and I’m very excited to being putting some of my theories about nest cams into practice.

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Critter News

JULY 21, 2009

But of course, the argument will be that the project is economic development, jobs and "for the good of humanity.". The stupid project is in partnership with a French pharmaceutical company. Fortunately, there are Malaysian activists opposing it.

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Critter News

MARCH 21, 2012

Apparently, there is a lot of argument out there than animal experimentation is even good for humans. Many times tests fail. A drug may work on an animal, but fail miserably on a human. Drugs are not always predictable from human to human even. Or vice versa. It's essentially a crap shoot.

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

Our primary concern is the advancement of investigative methodologies that lead to effective cures and treatments for human diseases.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2010

An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. Well, there's always some unexpected nonsense to discover. From USA Today.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. The Spring Festival – or Chinese New Year – is a big period for traveling in China. Being somewhat allergic to crowds, I usually avoid traveling during the peak of this period.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2011

As the owner of what has been called ( by me ) western New York’s leading test prep organization , I have to meticulously analyze every aspect of these crucial college entrance exams. Consequently, I give you the IATB SAT … The SAT undoubtedly deserves the title of America’s most terrifying test.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

November was National Pet Diabetes Awareness Month, were you aware that just like humans, dogs and cats can also get diabetes? Diabetes in Dogs – Testing and Monitoring. Diabetes in Cats – Testing and Monitoring. In fact, one in 200 cats and one in 500 dogs has diabetes. Excessive Thirst. Increased Urination. Weight Loss.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While I'm not a fan of using animal hearts for transplants, I'm far more sympathetic to that than to simply using their parts for human vanity consumption. But the seal industry doesn't care. They'll exploit anything to try to save their barbaric trade and, if they can use guilt, even better. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

This two-hour special draws on leading experts to test common shark attack myths while swimming freely among them. In addition to the live broadcast, viewers can go to natgeotv.com/sharkexperiment to find background on the experts and tests as well as live updates from an on-location blog that will include photos, video and text.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Freeman says that the most difficult thing he has encountered so far in his research comes not from the lab, but from people’s attitudes about animal testing. Why do humans always have to get everything we want and we have to do it at the pain and expense of animals? Does it benefit the animals? Diet (eat less!), exercise (walk more!)

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

An enormous victory was achieved for animals this week when nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats were rescued from a North Carolina animal testing facility that closed its doors after an undercover investigation revealed apparent abuse of the animals by workers at the facility.

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Critter News

MARCH 10, 2009

The article discusses how scientists are infecting monkeys with a surrogate HIV virus that does not even lead to AIDS, begging the question of why infect them in first place if there's no real simulation of what happens in humans? There is more and more evidence that animal testing is NOT necessarily the best route to take.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

The Sacred Ibis was seen as the incarnation of the god Thoth, who (with gods apparently better at multitasking than humans) was (or maybe still is, who knows?) ” Somebody should have warned the poor kites not to copy everything that humans do. Possibly also for doing the dishes. .” Two ways of life folded at once.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Tests on the corpses (that’s your best indicator they’re not actually zombies) of affected pigeons seem to show signs of salmonella poisoning, and not avian influenza or other diseases that could jump to humans. That didn’t stop the country’s chief sanitary official, however, from totally dissing pigeons.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

In this week's podcast ending February 6, 2010: **Willet Dairy the subject of a Mercy for Animals undercover investigation suspends a worker shown abusing cows; **The Humane Society applauds the Allergan Corporation for progress on the replacement of animal subjects in Botox testing; **PETA files a lawsuit to free Lucy the elephant from the Edmonton (..)

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures. Plus, animals are messy, require feeding and constant care, draw protests, and, yes, can be a bit smelly.

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Critter News

JANUARY 20, 2012

Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories.

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Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

Testing drugs on animal is unpleasant. There is only one alternative to testing drugs on animals: testing them on humans. That's why I truly wish someone would explain to me to me why humans are so unique and of such higher value than anything else. Are there even more unique versions of humanity on their way?

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 15, 2012

You vs. Cat” is the first tablet game designed for human and cat to play together. Cat-like reflexes will be put to the test when the human player launches up to five playing pieces onto the field where they tumble, collide, and bounce around. Cat,” available for iPad and iPad2 tablet devices.

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Critter News

APRIL 14, 2009

So, despite all the animal testing that goes into cosmetics, many of them are still potentially harmful to a human being. I really enjoyed this post by The (Nearly) Perfect Vegetarian about her research into the safety of the beauty products she uses. So all that wasted animal life for nothing?

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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. But scientists had carried out few studies to test those beliefs–until now.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Food allergies and food intolerances affect our pets much the same way they strike humans. Others develop food allergies or intolerances due to an auto-immune disease, where dogs, like humans, will react to foods that are typically normal for consumption (e.g., milk in lactose intolerant humans ).

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I am deeply troubled and angry that the National Institute of Health wants to move almost 200 chimpanzees from this facility to a laboratory in Texas where they may be subjected to testing. This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Philosophers have shown that the standard reasons offered to exclude animals from the moral circle, and to justify not assessing our treatment of them by the same moral categories and machinery we use for assessing the treatment of humans, do not meet the test of moral relevance. Bernard E.

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