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In June 2016, Swiss and German-based anti-speciesist political think-tank Sentience Politics began collecting signatures for a ballot initiative on fundamental rights for primates in Basel, Switzerland. If passed, the measure would amend the cantonal constitution to "right to life and respect for the physical and mental integrity" for non-human ...
Fortrea primate-testing lab, Vienna, Virginia, 2004–05. Most of the NHPs used are one of three species of macaques, accounting for 79% of all primates used in research in the UK, and 63% of all federally funded research grants for projects using primates in the U.S. [25] Lesser numbers of marmosets, tamarins, spider monkeys, owl monkeys, vervet monkeys, squirrel monkeys, and baboons are used ...
Sentience Politics is a Swiss anti-speciesist political organization with the goal of reducing the suffering of non-human animals. [2] Founded in 2013, [3] their activities include political campaigns, such as ballot initiatives for sustainable food, [4] [5] fundamental rights for primates [6] or a ban on factory farming. [7]
Great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non-human members of the great ape family: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes , evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins , philosophers Paola Cavalieri and ...
This is a list of countries banning non-human ape experimentation. The term non- human ape here refers to all members of the superfamily Hominoidea , excluding Homo sapiens . Banning in this case refers to the enactment of formal decrees prohibiting experimentation on non-human apes , though often with exceptions for extreme scenarios.
To encourage all areas of non-human primatological scientific research. To facilitate cooperation among scientists of all nationalities engaged in primate research. To promote the conservation of all primate species. Protection of captive primates, i.e. the improvement of their well-being, is one of the most important activities within EFP ...
Range and density of non-human primates. Primates is a diverse order of placental mammals which includes monkeys, lemurs, galagos, lorisids, tarsiers, and apes (including humans). Members of this order are called primates. The order currently comprises 505 extant species, which are grouped into 81 genera. The majority of primates live in South ...
Ethnoprimatology is a discourse aimed at an anthropological holistic understanding of non-human primates. Human cultures worldwide have deep-rooted, primordial connections with non-human primates. Non-human primates play key roles in creation stories of many societies and often depict the direct relationship between non-human primates and humans.