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Internet Exploits Cameroon's Primates

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Illegal wildlife traffickers provide fake credentials to establish that primates are being legitimately offered for sale. Their ads claim that the primate comes with "veterinary health documents, a "permit" from CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) and a year's health care guarantee.

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Thousands Offered for Primate Freedom

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APRIL 22, 2010

An animal rights activist has offered $30,000 to anyone who facilitates the freeing of primates, or the end of vivisection, at the University of Kansas, a place cited for numerous animal welfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animal research vivisection primates. He does not condone violent or illegal acts.

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Captive Primate Safety Act Passes House

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The Captive Primate Safety Act was passed by the US House by a vote of 323 to 95. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for sponsoring the measure that will prohibit the trade in non human primates. Tags: primates. Mark Markarian, as usual, has an excellent roundup. Special shout out to Rep.

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House Bill to Prevent Primates as Pets

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Rahall (D-WV) announced that, at his request, the House of Representatives will consider on Monday, February 23, the Captive Primate Safety Act (H.R. Keeping primates as pets threatens public health and safety, as well as the welfare of the animals. The Captive Primate Safety Act is bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps.

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Excellent Overview of Animal Testing Using Primates

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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. Tags: animal research primates.

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Last Monkey Recaptured by Primate Center

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APRIL 6, 2009

The last of nine monkeys that escaped from the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro was found at 2 p.m. The last monkey was found on the primate center campus. Tags: animal experimentation primates medical research oregon. Sunday, officials said.

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Southwest Primate Center "Celebrates" 10 Years

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

“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.

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Weekend Protest Against the Oregon National Primate Research Center

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Animal rights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!"

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PETA Enters Alamagordo Primate Controversy

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health PETA new mexico.

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Primate Parts Still Being Used for "Medicinal Purposes"

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MARCH 29, 2010

I didn't know primates were in demand too. Tags: traditional medicine poaching primates endangered species. It's not just tiger parts and elephant tusks that are being used for so called "traditional" medicinal uses. I knew about bush meat, but not about this. Will it ever end?

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It's Tough to Report about OHSU's Primate Lab

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AUGUST 15, 2009

I wish the Seattle weeklies would at least try to cover the University of Washington's Primate Center. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. Sounds like there can be a whole lot of drama surrounding the Willamette Week's attempts to report about this place. Here's an example.

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Air Canada To Stop Shipping Lab Primates

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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. Unfortunately, the CTA is requiring Air Canada to continue shipping primates to laboratories while it considers the issue. "We

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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals

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AUGUST 25, 2009

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University of Louisiana Plays Defense on Primate Research

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APRIL 16, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty exper new iberia research center primates medical research.

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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JULY 12, 2009

Another crass attempt at primate slavery for money wrapped in "we put people first" robes." The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation. From the ALDF action alert page.

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Uganda’s Hard To Miss Monkeys

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Kibale National Park, in the west of the Central African nation of Uganda, is home to a 13 primate species, from Common Chimpanzees to bush-babies. They weren’ the only primates we saw around the station, baboons were common, as were Ugandan Red Colobus. Feeding on the succulent new leaves.

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Primate Breeding Facility Generates Controversy In Puerto Rico Itself

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Tags: puerto rico animal research primates.

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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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JANUARY 14, 2021

The furry kind is represented with 95 species – more than in any other Ugandan park, 10 primates among them, including the Chimpanzee. Kibale Forest National Park The primate capital of East Africa! Other wildlife includes 60 mammal species, 13 primates among them, Chimp tracking, Forest Elephants too.

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

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JULY 28, 2022

Mammals include Western Lowland Gorilla, Forest Elephant and Forest Buffalo, and eleven diurnal primates. Other primates include Chimpanzee and Putty-nosed Monkey, several duiker antelope species, etc.

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The Geladas of Ethiopia

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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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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

At Bird Uganda Safaris, Herbert and his team established a project Saving Primates through which they have been raising funds to support these groups with food relief, seeds to plant, and will further continue supporting the with more skills in various services that are demanded by tourists.

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Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?

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JUNE 16, 2011

But that is because we often have the relationship between dinosaurs and birds reversed in our little primate minds; Much of what is bird-like is not exclusive to birds, but rather, to a larger group of dinosaurs. Among mammals, bipedalism is found in several rodents, a number of marsupials, and one primate.

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Osprey in Missoula

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APRIL 5, 2013

Adaptation has its privileges! Early April is a fairly typical time for the earlier-migrating Osprey to arrive (both birds at Dunrovin are already onsite,) but eggs probably won’t appear until late April or early May.

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Ghoulish Primate Experiment in South Africa

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

This is just horrible and sick, sick, sick. It's at a vomit level with me. From news24.com. 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.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.

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Oklahoma State Stops Anthrax Vaccine Testing

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Administrators at OSU decided not to let the project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, commence as the primates being used would be euthanized. An internal faculty committee spent more than a year preparing protocol for the care and use of the primates. Tags: university research animal research primates.

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Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting

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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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Swallows. Swallowed

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JANUARY 21, 2014

As I was just starting to examine it, a famous paleontologist who happened to be passing by came over to look, and immediately determine that it was a fossil primate tooth, a very rare find indeed. Once, an Earthwatch volunteer wet-screening on a 2.5

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How smart are parrots?

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

They are not acting like most primates, by the way, but they are acting like people. Perhaps one of the most interesting findings of this research is the detailed dynamics of inter-parrot interaction. They are not simply flocking and they are not simply pair bonding. This: Just like people.

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Humans AND Monkeys Enjoy Television

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JUNE 22, 2010

Another commonality between the two species , this one found by the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute. Tags: primate/human similarities animal research monkeys.

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Another Research Company Accused of Animal Mistreatment

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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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Help the Almagordo Chimpanzees

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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.". Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health new mexico.

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Jane Goodall Quote on New Iberia Research Center

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MARCH 16, 2009

The screaming I heard when chimpanzees were being forced to move toward the dreaded needle in the squeeze cages was, for me, absolutely horrifying.” - Dr. Jane Goodall responding to the Nightline special detailing the mistreatment of hundreds of chimpanzees and other primates at New Iberia Research Center.

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Dane County Debates Wisconsin Animal Research

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Not sure anything will come of this, but Dane County is turning its attention to the primate research going on at University of Madison-Wisconsin. Tags: animal research primates university of madison-wisconsin. From Channel3000.com.

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Ex NASA Employee Joins PETA Protest

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JULY 31, 2010

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. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates PETA NASA.

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The Royal Mile: Birding Fit For a King

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

I expected fleeting glimpses of chimps if we saw any at all, but my first encounter with these amazing primates in the wild lasted many minutes as our respective groups peered at each other from opposite ends of the road. Another advantage the Royal Mile lords over most other birding locations is the presence of Chimpanzees.

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Tensions Mount over University of Florida Animal Research

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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. Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.)

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Of Birds and Bigfoots

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Birds are less compelling to human interest than our fellow primates, in many regards, but surely they are more arresting than a big wad of tentacled whale chow. Now why should this be? Unexplained! and Canada” often with cameras at ready.

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EU Bans Use of Great Apes in Animal Research

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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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Key AETA Supporter Suspended Over Animal Welfare

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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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Air Canada Criticized for Transporting Research Monkeys

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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.

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