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Elon Musk-funded primate research program questioned over violations of care for dying monkeys

February 17, 2022

A doctors’ group has filed a complaint against UC Davis with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, alleging that an Elon Musk-funded primate research program…

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Rats taught to drive tiny cars show much less stress, which could be good for our mental health

November 3, 2019

If you teach a rat to drive a tiny car, it gives the rodent new-found independence which leads to lower levels of stress. Call…

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Researchers figure out how flies stick that perfect upside down landing

October 28, 2019

Nobody pays much attention to flies, except perhaps when swatting them. But a team of international researchers have watched them so closely that they…

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Wild pigs are “ecological train wrecks” spreading across Canada: Researchers

May 13, 2019

It’s a pig of a problem. Wild boars have spread across Canada farther than anyone previously thought. New research into the country’s wild pig…

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Meatless Monday: Best way to combat jellyfish stings and it doesn’t involve pee

October 29, 2018

More than 100 deaths a year are attributed to jellyfish stings making them one of the most dangerous critters in the sea. One treatment…

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Birds sing because they have a unique voice box that no other animals have, scientists find

October 10, 2018

The way birds sing is unlike any other sound animals make and scientists now know that this melodious call comes from a unique voice…

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Freedom at last for 10 laboratory chimpanzees now home-sweet-home at Project Chimps

September 4, 2018

For years, in some cases decades, the chimps lived in a research lab. They never knew life outdoors, or without being observed and prodded…

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Meatless Monday: Fecal transplants help researchers gain better understanding of the guts of endangered koalas

June 18, 2018

Koalas are picky eaters. They’re very selective about the species and the individual trees where they eat. They eat only eucalypt leaves. The problem…

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Real Life Stranger Things: Giant, freaky tadpole is straight up sci-fi

June 15, 2018

Earyn McGee is working on her doctorate at the University of Arizona studying “how lizard communities may be affected by stream drying which could…

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Humane Society wants bill to re-home animal testing animals, Johns Hopkins doesn’t

February 18, 2018

The American Humane Socity is trying to pass a bill in the Senate that would require research facilities to find adoptive homes for dogs…

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