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Covance beagle breeding kennels: they are not Snoopy’s doghouse

July 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

SHARK’s flying machines expose the alleged Bloody Red Baron of animal testing             CUMBERLAND, Virginia––Labcorp,  parent company of Covance Research Products,  has yet to respond to SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) drone video exposing how thousands of beagles live at the Covance company puppy mill in Cumberland, Virginia,  according to SHARK president Steve Hindi. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Religion & philosophy, Science Tagged With: David Fleshler, Friedrich Mulln, Kitty Block, Lisa Leiten, Mary Beth Sweetland, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Steve Hindi

Wild Kingdom star Jim Fowler, 89: the truth behind the legend

May 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Florida roadside zoo showman starred on TV for 50 years  NORWALK,  Connecticut––Few viewers of the NBC nature documentary television series Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom during the original run of the program,  1963-1971,  might have expected that host Jim Fowler would die quietly at home at age 89––but he did,  on May 8,  2019,  in […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Birds, Central America, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Other entertainment topics, Screen industry, The Americas, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: John Hamlet, Johnny Carson, Marlin Perkins, Mary Louise Grossman, Merritt Clifton, Shelly Grossman

China cloning advance to cut monkey use in research, say scientists

January 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Critics appear not to have read either the Chinese scientific journal reports or media release about them clear to the end SHANGHAI, China––Had the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai put the last three lines of a January 24,  2019 media release announcing the births of five cloned monkeys at […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Chimps & other primates, China, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Legislation, Science, Science Tagged With: He Jiankui, Hung-Chun Chang, Merritt Clifton, Mu-ming Poo, Qiang Sun, Wang Xueqiao

Arun Rangsi, 39, “heart gibbon” of IPPL founder Shirley McGreal

December 23, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Arun Rangsi was living link to IPPL origins             SUMMERVILLE,  South Carolina––“The International Primate Protection League is devastated to report the loss of our first lab gibbon, Arun Rangsi,  who was also my ‘heart gibbon,’”  IPPL founder Shirley McGreal posted to social media. Arun Rangsi was a living link to IPPL cofounder Ardith Eudey,  Ph.D.,  a […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ardith Eudey, Belton Mouras, Bo Petersen, Jan Moor-Jankowski, Merritt Clifton, Shirley McGreal, Vernon Weir

Nazi zombies from hell: VW monkey tests & New Zealand use of 1080

September 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Pledging to quit animal tests, VW tries again to shake Nazi origin             WOLFSBURG,  Germany––Monkeys are no longer breathing diesel fumes. Volkswagen publicists are likely breathing sighs of relief. Nazi tactics and ideology live on elsewhere. Examples include the use of the Nazi-developed pesticide Compound 1080 to kill a targeted goal of two million feral […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Austria, Central Europe, Chimps & other primates, Dogs & cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Lab animals, Politics, Research & testing, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ferdinand Karl Piech, Ferdinand Porsche, Herbert Diess, Jorian Jenks, Kate Connolly, Merritt Clifton, Tasgola Brune

Death of Koko, 46, raises question what will become of her rejected mate Ndume?

June 22, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Koko was among the last great apes used in still controversial 1970s language research             WOODSIDE,  California––With Koko deceased,  what now will become of Ndume,  37,  the last and least famous of the three gorillas who once shared the Gorilla Foundation sanctuary and primate language research laboratory in the Santa Cruz Mountains,  south of San […]

Filed Under: Activism, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Cameroun, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Barbara J. King, Dawn Forsythe, Francine Patterson, Herb Terrace, Jane Goodall, Jane Hu, Jeffrey Kluger, Merritt Clifton, Penny Patterson, Ronald Cohn

Four lionesses: women who made a difference for animals

February 17, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Remembering Lynette Shanley,  Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick,  Coby Siegenthaler,  and Lorraine Blake Roth Lynette Shanley,  Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick,  Coby Siegenthaler,  and Lorraine Blake Roth,  widely separated in geography,  ages,  life experience,  and focus in activism,  likely never met,  nor even heard of each other,  yet––like tens of thousands of other relatively anonymous women––lent strength to the ever-growing […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cats, Central Europe, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Mice & rats, Netherlands, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Shelters, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Coby Siegenthaler, Hans Siegenthaler, Lorraine Blake Roth, Lynette Shanley, Merritt Clifton, Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick

Cryptozoologist & taxonomist Colin Groves, “The Ultimate Classifier,” 75

December 18, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Member of International Primate Protection League advisory board since 1975 CANBERRA,  Australia––Colin Groves,  75,  called “The Ultimate Classifier” by the Society of Conservation Biology,  a member of the International Primate Protection League advisory board since 1975,  and a cofounder of the anti-pseudoscience organization Canberra Skeptics,  died in Canberra,  Australia,  on November 30,  2017. Born in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Chimps & other primates, China, Conservation, DRC, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Isles, Kenya, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Other animals & science topics, Poaching & trafficking, Science, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Colin Groves, Katherine Buri, Lynette Shanley, Merritt Clifton, Richard Leakey, Shirley McGreal

Beyond sentience: will Brexit halt live animal exports from the U.K.?

December 14, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Minister for Agriculture & Rural Affairs confirms her government is “considering options to control live animal exports”             LONDON,  U.K.––British cabinet ministers,  after the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union,  called “Brexit” for short,  “must have regard to the welfare needs of animals as sentient beings in formulating and implementing government policy,”  according to draft […]

Filed Under: Animal sentience & intelligence, Cattle & dairy, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Mice & rats, Regulation, Science, Scotland, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom, Welfare Tagged With: Claire Horton, David Bowles, Jon Craig, Merritt Clifton, Michael Gove, Phillip J. Lymbery, Theresa Villiers, Therese Coffey

Hurricane Maria: monkeys hold on, horses endure

September 29, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

“Oh my goodness, how could anything have survived this?”          CAYO SANTIAGO,  Puerto Rico––Hurricane Irma mostly missed the renowned Cayo Santiago rhesus macaque colony,  on an island just east of the Puerto Rican mainland,  but Hurricane Maria hit it head-on,  at full Category 5 strength. The thousand-odd macaques on Cayo Santiago are ninth generation descendants from […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal organizations, Birds, Caribbean, Chimps & other primates, Disasters, Educational use, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Racing, Research & testing, Science, Show, The Americas, Urban wildlife, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Clarence R. Carpenter, Ed Yong, Elizabeth Redden, Frank Angst, James Higham, Linda Horn, Mark Samuel, Merritt Clifton, Shelley Gagnon-Blodgett

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