Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2011

Animal-rights activists are urging Air Canada to stop shipping live monkeys and other animals destined for experimentation, saying the airline can change its tariff rules if it wants. In our opinion, Air Canada is not legally obligated to accept monkeys as cargo," said the opinion written by Lawyers for Animal Welfare.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

Puerto Rico is using it as a dumping ground for "nuisance" monkeys. Puerto Rico is eager to rid itself of the estimated 2,000 patas and rhesus monkeys that have taken a toll on wildlife and agriculture in the Lajas Valley since escaping from nearby research centers 30 years ago. "We Angel Atienza, a ranger with the department.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

It's a TLC show about humans that adopt monkeys and treat them as their children. Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds. This is seriously weird stuff.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

I can't imagine the trauma the older monkey is going through. Thieves have stolen two monkeys from an enclosure at a wildlife park, police said today. The female squirrel monkeys were snatched after raiders broke into the Cotswold Wildlife Park, near Burford, Oxfordshire, last night. Tags: wildlife crime monkeys.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Restaurants are always hit hard during economic downturns, but one restaurant in Japan has a novel approach to cutting costs: replace the wait staff with monkeys. The monkeys only work two hours a day, but bring in tourists from around the globe. Tags: Stupid Japan monkeys.

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Critter News

APRIL 6, 2009

These are not subject monkeys, but they are part of the breeding colony. The last of nine monkeys that escaped from the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro was found at 2 p.m. Nine Japanese macaque monkeys got loose Friday after their keeper left the cage unlocked and they figured out how to open the door.

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Critter News

JUNE 3, 2009

Viral DNA was used to introduce a gene for a green fluorescent protein into monkeys, creating a new line of "glow-in-the-dark" transgenic primates for drug research work. Tags: genetics animal experimentation animal research monkeys. That way you can always find them in the dark! (Oh, Oh, by the way, drug researchers love this.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Thai Highway Police in Sa Kaeo province have rescued 24 baby crab-eating monkeys, arresting a Thai driver and five undocumented Cambodians attempting to smuggle the endangered species to Cambodia, where they were destined for cooking pots in.Chinese specialty restaurants in Cambodia.

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JUNE 22, 2010

Tags: primate/human similarities animal research monkeys.

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JULY 22, 2010

Caught at the airport in Mexico City, he had 18 of these monkeys and two of them were dead.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

In Bergman's study, according to Discovery News, 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys would be subjected to radiation and periodically tested to gauge how exposure affects performance in a variety of learned tasks. The research project, led by Jack Bergman of McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Belmont, Mass.,

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Critter News

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Actor Benicio del Toro has written a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico opposing a new monkey breeding facility. The Puerto Rican actor has penned a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico urging him to halt the construction plans for Bioculture's massive monkey-breeding facility.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty china monkeys.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

and near-endemic Golden-backed Uakari monkeys ( Cacajao melanocephalus ). And then there was an odd moment, when the skipper slowed down and we started searching the tree-crowns for monkeys, or birds… nothing, then the skipper manoeuvred around to collect a single can of beer floating in the river. Photo by Juan Carlos.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

In Oregon you can’t own any “dangerous” wild animals, but you can get a special permit for a service monkey and anyone can fill their backyard with giraffes. You can own a yak in Kentucky, but not a cheetah in Maine. In Mississippi you can own an ocelot, but not a wolverine. Are we fed up yet?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2019

And that doesn’t even include crossing tracks with Blue Monkey , Red-tailed Monkey , and Tree Hyrax. Although Kibale famously offers a more complete chimpanzee experience, the long views the Royal Mile served up left me plenty satisfied. Smart chimps steer clear of weird birders.

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JUNE 27, 2018

For example, it would make a huge amount of sense for suspensory feeding monkeys to have six, not four, limbs. Monkey is a common, not scientific, term. People use the terms “primate” and “monkey” interchangeably, and refer to such things as lemurs as monkeys. And that makes total sense and is a great thing to know.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2015

It was past midnight when the forest gets rather quite when I started to hear monkeys near my tent pinched by an oxbow lake. But monkeys are diurnal except for Owl-monkeys that make only chip and shrill calls. Insects sounds taper off after a few hours letting owls, nightjars, pygmy-owls and potoos finally be clearly heard.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2024

Spider monkeys swung through the highest branches, occasionally letting themselves fall to only a few boughs below, to peer curiously at these poorly adapted bipeds. White-crowned Manakin There was surely a lot of activity in the canopy, problem was that the trees were giants themselves and their crowns were well out of our eyes’ reach.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

If we assume (probably incorrectly) that of apes and monkeys, they all descended from a monkey like ancestor, than apes are monkeys. In other words, the group of mammals that includes all the monkeys, which is rather large (and not accurately defined because I’ve not said what a “monkey” is … am I including lemurs?)

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The forests are also home to Asiatic Elephants and Capped Langur Monkeys. The forests are home to Kalij Pheasants , Crested Tree Swifts , Ashy Wood Swallows , owlets, woodpeckers, spider hunters, barbets and bulbuls, laughingthrushes and hornbills.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

In her book, “ On a Wing and a Prayer, “ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.”

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.). Strictly speaking, Mammals of South Asia is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration. Still, there should be no problem with larger species that allow for longer observation time (e.g.

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MAY 10, 2012

Howler monkeys! My first-ever wild monkeys! Monkeys!!!!! Creatures like another species of monkey, White-headed Capuchin , Cebus capucinus , which are also known as White-faced Capuchins. Golden-mantled Howlers ! Somehow, I restrained myself and we moved on to see more awesome creatures in the mangroves.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

I still do not like monkeys very much. The bird was trying to look stately, dignified, and menacing, which was not very convincing after we had just watched it failing to catch some prey on the ground. It probably thought we had not seen that. And the last notable animals we saw were a troupe of Rhesus Macaques on the roadside.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Not sure yet, but it could happen per this action alert from Physicians for Responsible Medicine.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

Tree crowns were swaying, branches rocking; a troop of Vervet Monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops ) was on the move and we were reaching for our binoculars. Vervet Monkey c. The gentleman living on a farm by the Ngotwane Dam said ‘A croc took my dog, right there!’. Cape Glossy Starling +. Cape Wagtail 2. Jameson’s Firefinch 1.

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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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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Johannesburg - A Bloemfontein man received a criminal record on Friday for a "backyard experiment" on a pregnant monkey, the NSPCA said. The NSPCA in November 2008 charged Jordaan for his "merciless treatment" of a heavily pregnant vervet monkey. She said the monkey's infant was removed by Caesarean section on October 31.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

For more than a year, we have worked to block NASA’s planned radiation experiments on live squirrel monkeys. NASA had planned to irradiate 30 live squirrel monkeys in a misguided attempt to learn the effects of deep-space radiation. Because of your hard work, these monkeys will not be irradiated or otherwise abused.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

We also saw a small group of Guianan Red Howler Monkeys feeding nearby. Further east and now well into the Trinity Hills itself, another stop and walkaround yielded a small group of Turquoise Tanagers , a White-flanked Antwren , a pair of Rufous-tailed Jacamars , more Dusky-capped Flycatchers , and several Silver-beaked Tanagers.

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AUGUST 16, 2015

If you follow baseball, you’ve probably heard of the “ rally squirrel ” and the infamous “ rally monkey.” (Check out more photos of these beauties, like the one above, at the USFWS Southeast Region’s Flickr site ; and video of their transfer to the flight cage at [link] ).

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JUNE 21, 2019

I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. The Philippine Eagle has a kind face.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2011

Upon our arrival in late afternoon we explored the nearby Red-capped Manakin Trail and saw a pair of Tawny-faced Quail and managed to photograph a hauler monkey, Spot-crowned Antvireo and a Black-headed Antthrush at dusk. Also this area was impacted by small towns and small farms that have setup along the access road.

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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. That's why he created rats and monkeys. God created monkeys, and some have to be tested.". This is pretty vile in my opinion.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Lots of monkeys there too. In Central America, that translates to King Vultures , flocks of Scarlet Macaws , exciting mixed flocks, lots of uncommon forest birds, daily monkeys, and trails with the tracks of Puma, tapir, and Jaguar. As befits an end of the road destination, Luna Lodge is true wilderness birding.

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OCTOBER 30, 2021

In Costa Rica, they can take the form of everything from toucans (think crows with giant shark inspired beaks) to herons and monkeys. They don’t need to be professional bird killers either, predators only need to be in the right place at the right time. The Collared Aracari is a small toucan with a sharp beak.

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