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5. Elephants Elephants are considered one of the most intelligent animals on earth. It is believed that their intelligence stems from the fact that the neocortex portion of their brain is highly convoluted, which makes it similar to the brains of humans and apes. It has recently been discovered that some African elephants may warn one another about the presence of humans with a specific ‘word.’ They accomplish this by manipulating their vocal tract. They also have a ‘word’ to warn one another…

one of the most failed experiment is the AIDS antibiotic. Scientists had been researching the AIDS cure more than twenty years, but until now it has not been found. A significant amount of vaccines had been tested on apes, such as chimpanzees or macaque monkeys, and the results were positive and the disease could have been prevented and cured; however, when those antibiotics were injected into a human subject, the effects were not similar and the patients could not restore their health (Langley…

Animals have been used repeatedly in the past for biomedical research, in recent years animal testing has been under severe criticism by animal rights groups. Laws have been passed in many countries in order to make animal testing more ‘humane’ but many argue that the benefit to humans is not worth the torture to these defenseless animals. Scientists William Russel and Rex Burch publish a book titled “The principles of Humane Experimental Technique” in 1959 where they expressed their concerns…

scratch and come up with a new one. So far they have found that a vaccine provided was successful when it was exposed to hydrogen peroxide, however there is currently no humans being tested for what helps with this disease, but scientists are using macaque monkeys which are closely related to us. “Findings in nonhuman primates are always significant,”…

Unsurprisingly, people become emotionally bonded with the primate, therefore they’re more prone to diseases the primate may carry. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, herpes B could occur from the bites or even scratches of macaques. Another zoonotic disease caused by exotic pets specifically from birds is chlamydiosis. The Merck Veterinary Manual warned about the dangers of chlamydiosis claiming “…can affect people after exposure to aerosolized organisms shed from the…

Earlier this year, a team at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, announced that a kidney from a genetically engineered pig had sustained a rhesus macaque monkey for more than 400 days before being rejected, breaking the record by more than 250 days. And today, a group of researchers at the University of Munich in Germany announced they had nearly doubled the previous survival record for a life-sustaining…

have, Yukimaru only offers a brief explanation without any reflection, “Japanese macaque mothers sometimes persist in carrying infant corpses until they are covered with flies and completely decayed.” (Yukimaru). The questions researchers have currently been only about what happens and not about why. They give page after page accounts into the lives of these animals with no analysis. As seen in this research, Macaque mothers carry their fallen children till they decay. But, there is no clear…

of DNA responsible for regulating genes was matched with human DNA. That means every time any type of medicine, cosmetic product or any other product tested on mice that appears to be safe only has a 50% chance of being safe for humans. Cynomolgus macaque monkeys, the most commonly used species of monkeys used to test drug safety, are resistant to doses of acetaminophen that would be deadly to humans. Aspirin is toxic to many animals, including cats, mice and rats, and would not be on pharmacy…

I chose to study the famous Silver Spring Monkeys case, which is one of the biggest animal- rights cases to ever happen and the first to be brought to the U.S Supreme Court. It involves the highly acclaimed animals-rights group PETA and Dr. Edward Taub from the Institute of Behavioral Research. During May of 1981 in Silver Spring, Maryland, Alex Pacheco of the animals-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) went undercover as someone looking for a job at the Institute…

motorists to stay in their vehicles. Forty-eight animals were subsequently shot and killed by sheriff's deputies-two wolves, six black bears, two grizzly bears, 18 tigers, three cougars, and 17 African lions. A baboon was killed by the big cats and a macaque monkey who was released and never found was believed to have been killed and eaten by the big cats. (Dangerous Exotic pets). If those fifty animals had been in their natural habitat then they would not have been in the position to get…