Photo: Kevin Zhao / Reuters
Photo: Kevin Zhao / Reuters
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
Photo credit: Michaela Rehle / Reuters
How cute is this?
Baby baboons eating bananas at the National Zoo in Havana.
Baby baboons eating bananas at the National Zoo in Havana.
This baby's mother, the Oregon Zoo's adult Colobus, Molly, was chosen as the 2008 mother of the year!
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Aside from humans, the macaques are the most widespread primate genus, ranging from northern Africa to Japan. Twenty-two macaque species are currently recognized, and they include some of the monkeys best known to non-zoologists (wiki).
This is a newborn Propitheque (Propithecus verreauxi coronatus) male named Kibongo, born Dec. 24, 2007, at the Vincennes zoo in France.
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Photo: REUTERS/F-G Grandin
Some 3,000 villagers have attended an elaborate Hindu wedding ceremony in eastern India for two monkeys. The "bride" was dressed in a five-metre long sari and decked in flowers. The "groom", a three-year-old male monkey named Manu, was taken by procession to a temple in the company of hundreds of bemused onlookers, accompanied by loud music, dancing and fireworks.The monkeys were showered with gifts by those present. They included a gold necklace for the bride, donated by a local businessman.
"I feel as if my own daughter is getting married. I cannot bear the thought that she would not be with us anymore," Mamina, the woman who has been looking after the female monkey said.
The two monkeys, who were kept in chains before the marriage, have now been released by their owners.
They have been spotted hanging out at the temple where the "marriage" took place.
Source: BBC
If you're interested in monkeys, and who isn't, catch up on monkey and primate news by reading Monkeys in the News.
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A new species of uakari monkey, was recently found in a mountainous region of the Amazon by a New Zealand primatologist. The animal, dubbed Cacajao ayresii, lives outside protected lands and is hunted by locals, prompting the expert to call the newfound creature "quite vulnerable."Source: National Geographic
Three-week-old Jed was examined for the first time since he was born and staff at the Werribee Open Range Zoo were pleased to discover he is a boy. Jed is a vervet monkey.
Source: Herald Sun
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