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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 ...
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 ...
Per Parry, Negro History Week started during a time when Black history was being "misrepresented and demoralized" by white scholars who promoted ideas like the Lost Cause or the Plantation Myth ...
The Silver Spring monkeys were 17 wild-born macaque monkeys from the Philippines who were kept in the Institute for Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. [2] From 1981 until 1991, they became what one writer called the most famous lab animals in history, as a result of a battle between animal researchers, animal advocates, politicians, and the courts over whether to use them in ...
A wild and unexpected scene unfolded in Beaufort County, South Carolina, as over 40 rhesus macaque monkeys made a dash for freedom from a research facility. Residents have been urged to keep 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.
Maternal Infanticide, the killing of dependent young by the mother, is rare in non-human primates and has been reported only a handful of times. Maternal infanticide has been reported once in brown mantled tamarins, Saguinus fuscicollis, once in black fronted titis, Callicebus nigrifrons, and four times in mustached tamarins, Saguinus mystax. [6]