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Howling monkeys

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Is this the cutest baby face - ever?

It's a Silvery Langur (Trachypithecus cristatus,) born on the 31st of January, 2012, at the Santa Ana Zoo in Prentice Park.

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Are monkey experiments justified?

The current president of the Zoological Society of London,Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, was commissioned by the main bodies that fund medical research in Britain to assess whether the studies on non-human primates (NHPs) were necessary, high-quality and yielded significant advances in medical science. Animal welfare groups opposed to experimentation on monkeys called again for the practice to be banned outright. Bateson's report stated that the practice should continue and finds the current work to be generally of good quality. But also voiced concern that no clear scientific, medical or social benefits had emerged from nearly one in 10 projects. It also said that in a minority of experiments, the justification for using monkeys was "not compelling". Source

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What happens if you tickle a gorilla?

By tickling young gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans, researchers say they learned that all great apes laugh. Their findings suggest we inherited our own ability to laugh from the last common ancestor from which humans and great apes evolved, which lived 10 to 16 million years ago. Primatologist and psychologist Marina Davila Ross of the U.K.'s University of Portsmouth led a team that tickled the necks, feet, palms, and armpits of infant and juvenile apes as well as human babies. The team recorded more than 800 of the resulting giggles and guffaws. Source (via Boing Boing)

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Scotland calls for ban on monkey testing

A Scottish MEP has called for a proposed ban on primate testing to be extended to include monkeys used in Scottish laboratories. Labour MEP David Martin said Scotland runs proportionately more tests on primates than any country in the EU. He said testing on monkeys was immoral when other options could be developed. But scientists funded by the Medical Research Council said primates were only used when there was no alternative. Source: BBC

A barrow of monkeys?

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Cute or not? Baby silvery gibbon

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Video: monkey vs. dog

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Banana breath

How cute is this? Baby baboons eating bananas at the National Zoo in Havana.