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Primates
Aping
Ethical Behavior
Desmond Morris, Guardian, feature — December
2006
The Weatherall committee reports today
that monkeys, but not great apes, should continue
to be used for experimentation in medical research.
Anyone who has worked with apes will know just how
close to us they are and will be pleased by the decision
to spare them the pain of experimental procedures.
But what about the monkeys?...
Crimes
against Apes
Vinita Bharadwaj, Gulf News, feature — November
2006
With demand for bush meat
increasing, chimpanzee and gorilla meat, he says, is
highly sought after and many primates are killed mercilessly
in Cameroon. "It is the surviving orphaned babies
of these animals that find their way into countries
in the Middle East...
Primate
Passion
Laura Provolt, The Eureka Reporter, feature — August 2006
Phil Monroe was inspired to become an organ
grinder by Donovan's song Hurdy Gurdy Man...
At that time, it was much easier to enter a business
like organ grinding than today. "Back then, you
could walk into a pet store and plunk down $50 and
buy a monkey," Monroe said...
Baby
Monkey in Pain
Ashima Sharma, Ghaziabad Animal Shelter, essay — June
2006
With
the use of a plass, her teeth are terribly uprooted
without any anesthesia. Her mouth starts bleeding
but who cares? Then the wound is pressed with
a burning iron rod to stop the bleeding by cruel
monkey performer...
Monkey
Business
Tali Woodward, San Francisco Bay Guardian, feature — September
2005
Lisberger's
work involves fairly invasive experiments on live
subjects, and since you can't exactly stick electronic
probes into the brains of human beings, Lisberger
uses rhesus monkeys, those red-faced staples of biomedical
research...
Animal
Instincts
Tali Woodward and Brigid Gaffikin, San Francisco Bay Guardian, feature — September
2005
University
officials won't let outsiders tour the labs, won't
acknowledge where all the animal research facilities
are, and has administrators speak on behalf of individual
researchers...
A
Better Place — Primarily Primates
Cindy Widner, Austin Chronicle, feature — August 2005
"Every
single one is in a better place than it was before.
It may not be perfect, but it's in a better place
than they were before"...
Monkey
Law
Cheryl Smith, Austin Chronicle, feature — August
2005
No matter how docile a dependent
infant ape or monkey might act toward their
caretaker, when they reach sexual maturity
they start battling the humans around them
for dominance, just as primates do amongst
themselves in the wild...
Reachable
Star
Salom Shriver, poem — August 2005
Henry
went to hospital... /
twas
Bethesda Naval /
and
took a picture of an ape /
in
a restraining chair...
Animal
Rights Activist and "Recovering Objectivist" Cries
Foul!
Gayle Dean, Men's News Daily, commentary — August 2005
When
animal-abusers are caught red-handed, there's not
much their apologists can do, except pretend that
the abuses are rare and abnormal...
UW
Bids on Site Sought by Animal-rights Group
Karen Rivedal, Wisconsin State Journal, feature — August 2005
"There's
an awful lot of suffering going on inside," said
effort leader Rick Bogle, arguing that university
officials just want to shut down public debate about
animal research...
Lost
Apes of the Congo
Stephan Fairs, Time Magazine, feature — January
2005
If
there's one thing all the scientists can agree on,
it's that if this part of Congo goes the way of other
African wild lands, the great apes could soon disappear...
Chimps
Deserve Better Than They Get
Roger and Deborah Fouts, Daily News,
feature — March 2005
The
tragic chimpanzee attack in Caliente earlier this month
proves unequivocally that chimpanzees have no place
on TV shows or in back yards. Buddy and Ollie, the
two chimpanzees killed during the attack, got their
start in the world from the same chimpanzee trainer
who did the Careerbuilder.com
ads seen during this year's Super Bowl...
The
Betrayal of Animal Protection — The Corruption
of the USDA
Michael Budkie, Stop Animal Exploitation Now! (SAEN),
investigation — 2005
The
thought which underlies this line of reasoning assumes
that the agency charged with enforcing these new regulations
actually has some interest in living up to its mandate. However,
it has become quite clear that the USDA/APHIS is more
interested in serving its customers (labs, dealers,
exhibitors, etc.), than law enforcement...
Lab
Monkeys 'Scream With Fear' in Tests
Sandra Lavile, The Guardian, investigation — February
2005
Secret
documents describing how some monkeys can scream
in misery, fear and anger during experiments were
produced in the high court yesterday as evidence
that the laws intended to protect laboratory animals
are being flouted...
Low
Blows: A Report on the Sorry Plight of Boxing Orangutans
in a Thai Zoo
John Aglionby, The Guardian, investigation — October
2004
The
111 of the 115 Thai kick boxers still alive after
several years of a gruelling regime at the Safari World
centre just south of Bangkok are reportedly suffering
from herpes, skin diseases, hepatitis and mental depression.
Many are children. Their accommodation is dirty,
dark and cramped...
Remember
Jerom
Rachel Weiss, Laboatory Primate Advocacy
Group, essay — 2004
Jerom
was a teenager when he died eight years ago today.
He was alone and scared for many months. He was afraid
of humans and he wasn’t allowed contact with
other chimpanzees. When he died, he hadn’t
seen the sun in at least six years...
Monkey
Testes Grafted on Mice Produce Fertile Sperm
Science Blog,
report — February 2004
The
research team believes that this method could be used to preserve
genetic material from endangered nonhuman primates that might
die before reproducing. They warn, however, that ethical and
safety issues will need to be resolved before work on this
method proceeds to the production of human sperm for assisted
fertilization...
Poisoning
for Profit
British
Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, investigation — 2003
This shocking investigation
reveals the full in-depth horror of life in the monkey
labs at contract testers Covance in Germany...
Animal
Trafficking:
A Cruel Billion Dollar Business
Francesca Colombo, Common Dreams, investigation — November
2003
Although
legal trade in wildlife is regulated by the Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), an estimated one-third
of the global ales of 25 billion dollars a year is illegal — an illicit
business surpassed only by arms and drugs trafficking...
Amazing
(?) Animal Actors
Sarah Baeckler, Chimpanzee Collaboratory,
investigation — October 2003
...for
a little more than a year...I worked as a volunteer
at Amazing Animal Actors, a chimpanzee training
compound that supplies performers for film and
television productions... And I heard the director
of the compound say, “Kick
her in the face as hard as you can. You can’t
hurt her”...
Chickens
and Chimpanzees: The Odd Couple of the Animal Rights
Movement
Karen Davis, Satya Magazine, essay — 2002
Just as human verbal language is one of
the many languages of life, so our particular type
of intelligence is one among many. If people feel threatened
by the idea of equality beyond human primatology, that
is our problem to solve...
Of
Monkeys and Men:
Focus on Primate Research and Vivisection
Animals Voice, feature — 2001
Though the incompleteness
of USDA reporting leaves us without truly exact numbers, a
safe estimate would put the annual experimental toll for primates
at 60,000 a year in the United States alone, with potentially
another 10,000 primates kept in laboratories for breeding and
conditioning...
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