Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

These chimps are currently at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center. I just love the language used by the Research Center's spokesperson. {Dr. The animals have not been and are not currently being accessed for biomedical research,” Rowell said." Interesting. percent of our DNA.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The plight of these birds inspired her, along with a handful of other concerned individuals, to do everything they could to save them, and by April of 1971 International Bird Rescue Research Center (now known as International Bird Rescue) was incorporated as a non-profit organization.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The blue-blue bird is identified as number 1282 in the studbook, one of the oldest birds in the surviving flock, born at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center on the 2nd of June 1993 and relocated to central Florida on the 20th of April 1994.

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Critter News

MARCH 27, 2009

Tags: louisiana animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty new iberia research center animal welfare us.

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MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

From Nature : Eben Paxton, of the US Geological Survey’s Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center in Hawaii, and his colleagues analysed data on seven native species of forest bird on Kauai. In a related story, a recent study notes that Kauai, an Island of Hawaii, have lost a lot of birds due to climate change.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Hauber Hauber’s mini-essays focus on specific behaviors, enhanced by references to recent research yet written in a relaxed, personal way. And there is diversity in charisma–few people can resist an Emperor Penguin or a Secretary Bird, but common birds like Indian Myna and Black-crowned Night Heron also get their due respect.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The PETA activist who worked undercover at the University of Utah, and collected video footage of alleged mistreatment of lab animals, was also involved in an operation at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Tags: university research animal research undercover investigation PETA. I say "good for her!"

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MARCH 7, 2011

Taking morphological measurements from a foliage-gleaner The Asociacion Fauna Forever and Center for Ornithology and Biodiversity (CORBIDI), two Peruvian not-for-profit conservation organisations, are proud to announce the next set of Bird Ringing Forever courses to be held in June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata, Amazonian Peru.

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Critter News

AUGUST 19, 2010

Bill Richardson is asking to tour a former medical research lab in southern New Mexico that houses more than 200 chimpanzees. The animals can be used again for medical experiments if transferred to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas. From the AP.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations. Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty.

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Critter News

APRIL 19, 2009

Fortunately, wildlife staff from the Karisoke Research Center discovered it and it's okay now. Back in February, a three-year-old gorilla was caught in a poacher's snare meant for antelope. Here's the story from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund website.

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Critter News

APRIL 27, 2010

This is because they quote some guy from the USC Jane Goodall Research Center who throws doubt on the premise. Tags: chimpanzees jane goodall animal research. Commenters state that Jane Goodall herself witnessed mourning with the Gombe chimps. I'm sure many will dismiss these studies regardless.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

This place is celebrating its 10th year with ground-breaking research into what makes us all fat. And let's not forget the required sanctimonious quote from an animal researcher “Our primates are essential partners in medical progress, as are mice, rats, guinea pigs and opossums. Tags: primates medical research. Oh brother.

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Critter News

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. All the monkeys are healthy juvenile males and not involved in health research, officials said. They are part of the center's breeding colony.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

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 We will give them all the monkeys they want," said Sgt. Angel Atienza, a ranger with the department. "We

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Critter News

JANUARY 12, 2010

Department of Agriculture (USDA) report on the UW National Primate Research Center in September. Tags: animal research University of Washington USDA. From the student newspaper The Daily. A monkey allowed to starve to death was just one of the complaints noted in a U.S.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning. Ranchers oppose the move.

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OCTOBER 1, 2011

Kudos to him for all the research he did to make people more aware of birding. Yes, I think I would if I had all of my favorite resources available: 1) money 2) time 3) health Is there anything else you would like to add? We wouldn’t all be talking about the big years like we are now without the skilled writing of one Mark Obmascik.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

I like knowing that Ari Friedlaender, who wrote the section of Cetaceans, is a marine biologist affiliated with Duke University who studied Humpback Whales in Antarctica, and that Phil Trathan, who wrote the Penguins section, is a senior research scientist with the British Antarctic Survey who has conducted a census of Emperor Penguins.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.” To the Editor: Re “An Ape Types in Iowa” (column, Aug.

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MAY 28, 2016

For example, I recall some fine memorable mornings at the Tambopata Research Center where I walked into the forest, sat on a bench, and identified more than 120 species before breakfast, almost all of them by sound. In Costa Rica, similar mornings are possible but you have to be in the right place, right at dawn.

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MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 14, 2012

This dolphin calf is the first born at Discovery Cove that was conceived through the use of “sperm-sexing” research, which involves separating sperm carrying a female-producing X chromosome from sperm carrying a male-producing Y chromosome. Scientists at the SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Reproductive Research Center in San Diego, Calif.,

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2009

I've decided to quit my book club, which I dearly love, because of a member who works in medical research and supports animal experimentation. Then I read more about what's happening at the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana. Tags: animal research. And like I said, I love the other people in it. She supports this.

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

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