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The Humane Society of the United States says a 9-month undercover investigation has revealed routinely unlawful mistreatment of hundreds of chimpanzees and other primates in a federally funded research...
View ArticlePETA seeks probe of Texas researchers
PETA has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture calling for an immediate investigation of how the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston is treating the dogs,...
View ArticleManiacs, monkeys and the Motel 6
In a way, this might not be the best time to sing the praises of Motel 6 – it being in the news now for leaving the light on for one Jared Lee Loughner. Authorities say the Tucson man rented a room...
View ArticleCarnage in Zanesville
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Dozens of wild animals who escaped from a wildlife preserve in Ohio have been gunned down by police and sheriff’s deputies, and only two — a...
View ArticleMonkeys riding dogs, and the man behind it
And who, you’re wondering, was the brain behind Sunday’s halftime show that featured a dog-riding monkey? That’s Tim “Wild Thang” Lepard, a Mississippi boy who once tangled with bulls but, after nine...
View ArticleThis won’t be a halftime show (we hope)
It’s far cuter than the dog-riding monkey, but we’re not suggesting they become a halftime show. A dog in remote north-eastern Bangladesh has become a minor celebrity by breastfeeding a baby monkey...
View ArticleHave baboons adopted dogs as pets?
They haven’t saddled them up and landed them gigs at halftime shows, but a group of baboons in Saudi Arabia are reportedly “keeping dogs as pets.” And, if this video is any indication, the baboons,...
View ArticleDog finds Wake Forest’s missing monkey
Humans had been searching more than 10 days for the monkey that escaped from Wake Forest University’s Primate Center, but it was a dog who finally spotted her. Cassidy Garwood, 14, told WGHP/Fox 8 that...
View ArticleGetting the monkeys off their backs
The popular Banana Derby race at the Lake County Fair in Illinois — in which monkeys ride on the backs of dogs — will go on this year, but at least one member of the county board hopes to have it...
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