Critter News

AUGUST 8, 2009

Here's the organization's defense of its primate veterinarian members. Wouldn't Fluffy die without all the benefits of animal testing? Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates avma. They have paying members that are part of the animal research industry itself.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? What further properties must he show before religious missionaries must consider him worthy of attempts at conversion?

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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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

Flight has evolved multiple times; it has emerged in lizards, snakes, fish, bats, maybe bats again, distant relatives of primates, regular primates, rodents, and a few other unlikely taxa, in a rather half baked fashion, not “true” flight. It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once.

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Critter News

AUGUST 19, 2010

The contract expires next year and Richardson opposes a plan by the agency to transfer the chimps from the Alamogordo Primate Facility, where they are no longer used for medical testing. The animals can be used again for medical experiments if transferred to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Research supporters are going crazy over Oklahoma State University stopping anthrax testing on baboons. Tags: universities animal research primarily primates medical research. In addition to the threat of animal "extremists," they are also blaming T. Boone Pickens' wife Madeleine, whose husband is a big donor.

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Critter News

JULY 21, 2009

Tags: animal research pharmaceuticals primates medical research malaysia.

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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. Sincerely, Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates new mexico. Please ensure that the chimpanzees stay in Alamogordo.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The chimps have been free from testing at the Alamogordo Primate Facility at Holloman Air Force Base since 2001. The NIH proposed sending them to Texas to be used in research aimed at finding a hepatitis C vaccine. Animal welfare activists protested the transfer.

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Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

They may as well be centrifuges or test tubes to these people. Tags: chimpanzees animal research humane society chimp haven new iberia research center primates. Let's make this as clinical as possible. It's irrelevant that these chimpanzees share 98.6 percent of our DNA.

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Critter News

APRIL 23, 2010

A kitten died from dehydration as a result of too much medication, individual primates were neglected for days at a time, mice and Guinea pig cages were found to be overcrowded, and calves may have been exposed to painful situations for too long, but University of Utah officials maintain that none of the most recent animal-testing violations, released (..)

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. It's from a Reuters article from last May.I

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Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

According to the Members of Parliament (MPs), who adopted the report on its first review last week, all planned tests should be subject to mandatory ethical assessments to take into account the concerns of the public on the matter.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). He then says he goes to "exceptional lengths" to make ensure the physical and psychological welfare of the primates he uses, "except when it's absolutely necessary" to harm them.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

She is a data tech for a clinical testing company (for profit by the way.) I posted on this blog about quitting because of the New Iberia scandal in Louisiana in which the Humane Society found primates being abused. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. Plus, are mice comparable to kids (although I would prefer mice subjects to primates who are so much more sensitive)? I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. One of the conclusions? Don't let your mouse watch TV."

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

This was the idea originally proposed to explain unbelievably huge sexual swellings in primates, to let males know who the females are. The authors tested the idea that brood parisites benefit, in terms of fitness, by targeting species with the helper-at-the-nest strategy. They looked at fairy-wrens and cuckoos.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

Wild birds I’ve raised from tiny, featherless orphans demonstrate attachment to me, as would be expected for any young creature with a surrogate mother, even a weird, long-limbed primate mother. The real test of hummingbird bonds came in 2004. Needless to say, this makes them quite pleasant to raise. Would they return?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Europe banned the use of great apes in animal testing Wednesday as part of drastically tightened rules to scale back the number of animals used in scientific research. Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates. From the AFP. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.".

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