Debate Room: Put Animal Testing to Sleep

Seeded on Wed May 28, 2008 4:39 PM EDT (Business Week)

Medical research using animals such as monkeys, dogs, cats, and mice can and should be replaced with other methods. Pro or con?

science, animal-testing

Goodall urges Nobel prize for sparing lab animals

Seeded on Tue May 27, 2008 8:46 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Dr Jane Goodall, famous for her pioneering studies and passionate work on behalf of chimpanzees, thinks it's time for others to be rewarded for compassionate sceince.

science, animal-testing, chimpanzees, lab-animals, 86-609, animal-alternatives

No Federal Violations For Boiled Monkey Death

Seeded on Wed May 21, 2008 1:52 PM EDT (KIRO TV)

Um. So where is the "welfare" in the Animal Welfare Act if boiling a monkey alive is not a violation?

odd-news, animal-welfare, monkey, usda

Torture of any species a violation of nature

Seeded on Thu Mar 6, 2008 2:37 AM EST (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Acclaimed Seattle columnist explores the "thin line" between human and animal suffering through examination of recent news stories from the Seattle area. A must read.

war, torture, activism, animal-cruelty

Debunking Animal Autism: Not savants, just very well adapted

Seeded on Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:44 AM EST (Sciam)

Animal models are often used in autism research and part of the reason is the notion that animal brains work like the brains of autistic humans. This notion has also shaped how we study animal cognition for its own sake.

science, autism, neuroscience, animal-cognition, ethology, cognitive-sciences

Gambia: on the trail of the green monkey

Seeded on Fri Feb 8, 2008 8:12 PM EST (Telegraph)

Being incredibly smart, the animals soon learnt that, rather than forage for their own food, they could sit on a path and wait for it to fall from human hands.

travel, africa, national-park, conservation, monkeys, animal-behavior, ecotourism, the-gambia, human-wildlife-conflict

Boiling a monkey to death is apparently ok, so long as you do it in a lab

Seeded on Mon Feb 4, 2008 11:48 PM EST (KIRO TV)

Along with a spate of other animal welfare violations, it recently came to light that a monkey was boiled to death in an Everett WA contract testing lab. It's not clear whether it will be a violation of the Animal Welfare Act, though the USDA says the investigation is ongoing.

animals, odd-news, animal-welfare, monkeys, whistle-blowers, animal-cruelty, animal-abuse

Monkey boiled alive in lab; dozens of other deadly mistakes revealed

Seeded on Fri Feb 1, 2008 3:10 AM EST (KIRO TV)

Reports of a monkey boiled alive in a high temperature cage washer and other deadly mistakes revealed at the Everett WA based SNBL facility. According to whistle blowers and documents from federal investigators, many other monkeys were allegedly ill, injured and abused.

odd-news, animal-welfare, monkeys, whistle-blowers, primates

Elephant engineers

Seeded on Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:18 PM EST (EurekAlert!)

Browsing elephants bring geckos to the neighborhood. ...a researcher reports that the elephants' eating habits have a strong influence on the lizards' habitat choices.

science, endangered-species, habitat, biodiversity, ecosystems

Animal rights groups pick up momentum - USATODAY.com

Seeded on Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:52 AM EST (USA Today)

Increasing awareness of animal issues is changing the face of animal activism. Now more than ever, people see animal rights as social justice issue and one that is important to daily life.

animals, us-news, activism, animal-rights

Human sniffles kill endangered chimps

Seeded on Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:08 PM EST (New Scientist)

This article regarding the risks for our fellow great apes that are associated with close human contact raises a red flag.

science, gorillas, conservation, chimpanzees, zoonotic-disease, great-apes

BBC NEWS | Health | Work stress 'changes your body'

Seeded on Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:45 PM EST (BBC News)

Stressful jobs not good for the heart or health. Probably not a shocker for those who work at all - especially in stressful jobs. Does the explicit link found here change anything? Say liability or worker's comp?

health, heart-disease, stress, work-life-balance

The White House and the Whales: Whales not safe in Antarctic or American waters

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:48 PM EST (The New York Times)

While traveling in the Middle East on Tuesday, President Bush issued an exemption to the Navy from environmental laws that would otherwise limit its ability to use certain kinds of sonar used in anti-submarine warfare training, the Associated Press said.

whales, environment, science, sonar, injunction, marine-mammal-protection-act

Watch out Homo sapiens, whales are the real brainiacs

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:16 AM EST (Sciam)

The fact is, people do not have the largest brains on the planet, either in absolute size or in proportion to body size. Whales, not people, have the biggest brains of any animal on earth. Just how smart are whales? Why do they have such big brains?

animals, whales, intelligence, science, cognition, neuroscience, ethology

MIT: Culture influences brain function

Seeded on Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:21 PM EST (EurekAlert!)

New research from MIT demonstrates that individuals from cultures characterized by individualism or collectivism tended to process spatial tasks differently and in ways that reflect their culture of origin.

science, culture, attention, cognition, neuroscience

Chimpanzees need role models, too

Seeded on Wed Jan 9, 2008 1:17 AM EST (Telegraph)

The discovery was made in a series of experiments that compared their performance with that of Scottish children in research that once again underlines the continuity between human characteristics and those of our closest relatives.

animals, science, culture, primates, chimpanzees, great-apes

San Jose Mercury News - Where rescued tigers live in peace

Seeded on Mon Jan 7, 2008 3:59 PM EST (mercurynews.com)

Citing a commitment to care, space and an emphasis on safety, this article looks at how tigers and other animals used in entertainment can live out their lives in sanctuaries.

tigers, animal-welfare, zoos, sanctuaries

When Animals Go AWOL, Zoos Try To Tame Bad PR - WSJ.com

Seeded on Sat Jan 5, 2008 12:55 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Zoos' latest PR push emerged in 2003, following a series of Washington Post stories blaming poor care at the National Zoo in Washington for more than 20 animal deaths.

animals, animal-welfare, escapes, us-news, tiger, animal-rights, zoos, mauling

Who's who in the human zoo - Telegraph

Seeded on Fri Jan 4, 2008 11:55 PM EST (Telegraph)

"My approach begins with self scrutiny; once you understand what animal you are, you can take a step back and understand why you behave the way you do. Then you can look at your children and do the same."

animals, family, odd-news, personality

Back at the Zoo, With Sadness for All Casualties - New York Times

Seeded on Thu Jan 3, 2008 11:06 PM EST (The New York Times)

And while the monkeys and marsupials were lonely on a rainy, blustery afternoon, the Lion House, where the big cats reside, drew a steady stream of the curious.

animals, us-news, zoo-tiger

Independent Appeal: The new cooking stove that protects African wildlife by cutting human need - Independent Online Edition > Indy Appeal

Seeded on Thu Jan 3, 2008 9:04 PM EST (Independent.co.uk)

An interesting story of how the well-being of gorillas, local people and the environment in around the national park that both primates call home are all intimately connected.

africa, gorilla, charities, rwanda, conservation, community-development

Knesset backs animal rights, but doesn't roll out the red carpet - Haaretz - Israel News

Seeded on Thu Jan 3, 2008 3:27 PM EST (Haaretz)

Thus reads the Declaration of Animal Rights, signed in the Knesset Tuesday by the initiative of Anonymous for Animal Rights, on Animal Rights Day. The declaration recognizes a number of "natural" rights, including the right not to suffer from violence.

israel, animals, politics, animal-rights, knesset

Primates in Peril: Nearly 1/3 of primate species threatened with extinction

Seeded on Thu Jan 3, 2008 3:23 AM EST (The Washington Post)

In the fall of 2007, Conservation International released its latest list of the world's 25 most endangered primate species.

science, endangered-species, monkeys, apes, primates, lemurs, prosimians

Stressed squirrels wig out

Seeded on Thu Jan 3, 2008 2:24 AM EST (Discovery.com)

When we think of what causes stress in our own lives, we think of the pressures of work, or family or money.

animals, science, squirrels, stress, cortisol, ethology

Walk away menopausal anxiety, stress and depression

Seeded on Thu Jan 3, 2008 12:31 AM EST (EurekAlert!)

For some women, the key to reducing symptoms associated with menopause, anxiety and depression is a matter of putting one foot in front of the other...over and over.

health, womens-health, gynecology, wellness

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