In September 2017, Hurricane Maria unleashed its fury on Puerto Rico, leaving devastation in its wake. The nearby island of Cayo Santiago, home to hundreds of rhesus macaques since 1938, was not spared. Though devoid of human residents, the island’s primate inhabitants faced a dramatic upheaval. Lauren Brent, a behavioral ecologist at the University of […]
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Urgent Call to Halt Cruel Importation of Long-Tailed Macaques for Research
It has come to light that over 1,400 long-tailed macaques were captured from the wild in Indonesia and imported to the United States for use in cruel animal tests. This distressing practice has prompted vehement calls from animal advocacy groups Lady Freethinker and Action for Primates urging the U.S. government to cease the importation of […]
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Alexa Thwarts Monkey Attack on Toddler
Ateenager used Amazon’s artificial intelligence (AI) tool Alexa to save the life of a toddler who was being attacked by monkeys. The toddler was attacked in the town of Basti in India’s Uttar Pradesh after monkeys broke into the family home while 13-year-old Nikita was playing with her 15-month-old niece. The monkeys then started tearing […]