Critter News
JANUARY 24, 2011
The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Air Canada is one of a small number of airlines that continues to transport these primates, Kite said.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2012
We didn’t know what to expect from the train that had at one time been used to transport bananas to the coast and is now used to transport ecotourists to the wildlife refuge. Howler monkeys! My first-ever wild monkeys! Monkeys!!!!! Not only that, but we had a train ride to look forward to!
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2015
Twenty-five Puerto Rican Parrots are being groomed to be pioneers: The Critcally Endangered birds have been transported from existing colonies to the Maricao State Forest. If you follow baseball, you’ve probably heard of the “ rally squirrel ” and the infamous “ rally monkey.”
Critter News
JANUARY 20, 2012
The announcement below comes verbatim from the Pacific Free Press.they still need approval from the Canadian Transportation Agency though. We applaud Air Canada for wanting to get out of the monkey business," said Brian Vincent, Coordinator of the CCAARE and Director of Stop UBC Animal Research. "We Thank you Air Canada!
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. Suddenly, I felt as if I had been transported to a hundred million years prior. In the distance, Capuchinbirds wailed.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. One such individual was Sir George Grey, who liberated many animals on his estate (mercifully on an island), including wildebeest, monkeys, zebras, wallabies, deer, cassowaries, emu and kookaburras. We don’t have monkeys, or wildebeest, or salmon here.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2023
We managed to see both species of monkey, though – so we were ultimately well satiated. Crisscrossed by 24″ pipelines transporting oil from numerous offshore platforms, oil companies exercised the strongest presence here. Occasional fly-bys of pairs and trios of Red-bellied Macaws kept us on our toes.
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