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Videos of monkeys being tortured or abused have been commonly uploaded to social media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook. [1] [4] According to a September 2021–May 2023 study by Asia for Animals’ Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC), videos by pet macaque owners had a total of 12.05 billion views online, with 12 percent of these videos involving intentional physical torture ...
Some macaque species being abused are taken from the wild where they are endangered. When sickening videos of cruelty have been highlighted in media reports , social-media giants point to their ...
The pit of despair was a name used by American comparative psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, technically called a vertical chamber apparatus, that he used in experiments on rhesus macaque monkeys at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1970s. [2] The aim of the research was to produce an animal model of depression.
Two out of two studies with macaques found evidence for inequity aversion. [101] [65] Massen, Van Den Berg, Spruijt, and Sterck tested 12 long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in a tray-pulling experiment with strangers and "friends". The researchers hypothesized that friends pay less attention to equity than strangers and thus they ...
For the 2022-23 school year, the youngest student arrested on school grounds in Indiana was 8 years old.. A total of 156 children, aged 12 and under, were arrested at schools that year. On the ...
A Kansas lawmaker is working to make sure that no one ever dies of extreme abuse as Adrian Jones did in his Wyandotte County home. In 2015, the 7-year-old endured unimaginable trauma that was ...
In 1996, during Olé's first year of life, the Argentinian national sports daily newspaper was the centre of a scandal.. After the Argentinian Olympic football team's qualification to the final of the 1996 Olympic Games, the newspaper published on Wednesday July 31, 1996 the headline "Let the macaques come", in reference to the remaining semifinal match played between the teams of Brazil and ...
Some local residents and an animal-rights group are protesting plans for a monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia. Opponents on Tuesday urged the Bainbridge City Council to block plans by a ...