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Rebel Monkeys ! But for a gang of monkeys making their home at the Galta Temple in the Indian city of Jaipur, it’s an easy life — lounge by the sacred pool, groom your friends and accept handouts from worshippers paying respect to the Hindu Monkey God Hanuman. Tags: NatGeo tv. But their happy days may be numbered.
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.
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. Horrible and cruel. I hope they are returned.
Tags: primate/human similarities animal research monkeys. Another commonality between the two species , this one found by the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute.
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 Tags: zoos baghdad primates.
testing a vaginal gel on monkeys. Tags: animal research macaque. Now this is pretty gross. I understand it's for HIV prevention, but still. Disturbing. The gel was applied vaginally to three pigtailed macaques twice a week for seven weeks. A fourth animal received a placebo gel in the same manner.
A monkey was rescued from a factory in India where it was being held in captivity. Poor monkey! Tags: India animal cruelty macaque zoochosis. It's an adult male macaque suffering from zoochosis. It's the first time I've ever heard the term. Here's what I'd like to know.if
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.
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.
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. Who suffers?
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.
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. Tags: animal experimentation NASA. I believe that money to explore space can go to help an impoverished nation.
By tagging the Parrot and monitoring the area with remote cameras, scientists hope to learn more about this species and how to keep it safe. If you follow baseball, you’ve probably heard of the “ rally squirrel ” and the infamous “ rally monkey.” The bird is so rare and elusive that it was thought to be extinct.
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. Tags: animal research primates.
Twenty county board supervisors have sent a letter to UW-Madison's Chancellor Biddy Martin, asking her to get directly involved in the ethics of monkey experimentation. WISC-TV has learned that a public debate on the ethics of monkey research will be held on campus in March, keeping alive a touchy campus debate that's been brewing for years.
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.
She's accusing him of being a "monkey mutilator" and plans protests with other animal-rights activists at the UF football game today and at the researcher's neighborhood in the coming weeks. Tags: university of florida animal research activism primates. website, where she posted the researcher's address and a picture of his home.
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? Tags: animal experimentation medical research monkeys. It’s just a question of WILL.
PETA organized protests to stop these stupid radiation experiments on spider monkeys. Tags: animal research Stupid primates NASA. The purpose is to determine how astronauts would fare on the way to Mars. We can't even get out of Afghanistan and we're going to Mars. Give me an effing break.
A research project into the feasibility of using miniature pigs in laboratories concluded they are better suited for testing toxins, drugs and chemicals than dogs and monkeys. Tags: europe animal research mini-pigs pigs.
Over 1,000 animals were rescued, including 500 bull finches and 300 picoplats, The rescued wildlife also included monkeys, parrots, macaws and other species from Venezuela. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime trafficking. There was also over 400 lbs of "wild meat" (I don't want to know what that could be!).
Brazilian federal police arrested 72 people on Wednesday on suspicion of running an international smuggling ring that traded half a million wild animals, including jaguars and monkeys, each year. Tags: wildlife crime smuggling brazil trafficking latin america.
A Menlo Park research facility Monday refused to allow a humane society representative to check up on a monkey that bit a female lab worker the day before. Tags: animal research humane society primates. If the incident is insignificant, then why deny access? From the San Jose Mercury News.
Be warned there's a horrific picture of a cooked monkey head in this article.) Tags: wildlife trafficking us endangered species. And here I've been yelling at China all this time. (Be From Alternet.org. The United States is one of the world's largest, if not the largest, consuming nations for wildlife products.
April Jean Evans was a NASA engineer, but resigned her position in protest over radiation experiments on monkeys. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates PETA NASA. That takes a lot of courage and conviction.
The lab, which is run by the Britain-based Alpha Biologics, uses monkeys, dogs, rodents and rabbits for toxicology testing. Tags: animal research malaysia. Veterinary services department director Abdul Aziz Jamaluddin said there was no evidence that Progenix abused animals and that it would not order the facility to be closed.
They've been planning to build a facility to breed research monkeys in Puerto Rico for some time. Tags: puerto rico animal research primates. Plus, the horrible pictures I've seen of strays in Puerto Rico. Plus the fact that I personally know the Latin attitude towards animals. Plus, well, you get this picture.
Huntingdon used mostly mice and rats , but also some dogs, monkeys, fish and guinea pigs , in its research in New Jersey. Tags: huntingdon animal enterprise protection act. The activists posted the home addresses of Huntingdon officials and contractors on the group's Web site, and harassment, vandalism and violence sometimes followed.
The growth in animal experiments reflects an expansion in biomedical research in Britain and is driven by advances in genetics and the development of new drugs that must be tested rigorously in monkeys before they are allowed to be given to humans. Tags: animal experimentation UK drug companies medical research biotech.
Over the last two years, authorities have discovered 57 cases of trafficking in wild animals involving more than 7,612 individuals including monkeys and Tibetan bears and elephant tusks. Tags: vietnam exotic meats wildlife trafficking bush meat endangered species.
Here's a post on the Red, Green and Blue blog about the unspeakable trade in macaque monkeys as research subjects. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. If they think about what's going on and their role in it, then they might actually have to care.
In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!" Tags: animal research activism oregon national primate research center oregon.
Not only is it made from 100% cotton, so it’s very soft and comfortable, but all of their tags, packaging, etc. Did you know that they are more closely related to lemurs than they are to monkeys? Tags: people helping animals reviews. I chose the Philippine Tarsier Tee, which is a very fun shirt indeed!
This could be read as anything from a lab conducting medical research on monkeys to a gas station that sells beef jerky. Tags: animal enterprise terrorism act. From Alternet.org.all CAPS are my emphasis Under the law, an animal enterprise includes any business that deals in animal research or uses or sells animal products.
Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates. At a tax payer cost of $472,370? No wonder the research community wraps a "saves lives" cloak around its work whether falsified journal articles or Larson's "speech" studies. It keeps the public from saying YOU'RE FUNDING WHAT? For how many years? With what results?
“Without giving away the name so we don't get sued, we modeled the diet after a fast-food value meal,” Comuzzie said Thursday at a 10th birthday celebration for the Southwest National Primate Research Center, which maintains the foundation's massive colony of baboons, monkeys and chimps. Tags: primates medical research. Oh brother.
Hes previously poked albatrosses with sticks in Hawaii, provided target practice for gulls in California, chased monkeys up and down hills Uganda, wrestled sharks in the Bahamas and played God with grasshopper genetics in Namibia. I personally had a great if exhausting day. If you are interested, I have more photos of the day here.
The Argument from Monkeys According to Gerald Carson, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a well-known advocate of vegetarianism and inventor of some eighty ready-to-eat breakfast foods, used to persuade people to adopt vegetarianism in the following way: Dr. Kellog [sic] drew the conclusion “Eat what the monkey eats—our nearest relative.”
Caught at the airport in Mexico City, he had 18 of these monkeys and two of them were dead. Tags: wildlife smuggling mexico primates endangered species.
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