Get our daily email briefing straight to your inboxIts mum and dad were themselves taken from the wild to be caged and breed babies in frightening conditions.There’s a worrying rise in the UK use of long-tailed macaques, like this one in Mauritius, for testing and research, despite an EU law against it.And today, on International Primate Day, Animal Defenders International calls on our Government to explain it.ADI chief Jan Creamer said: “The public will be horrified to learn that not only is Britain still a major primate user, but it allows researchers to use monkeys whose parents have been taken from the wild and used as breeding machines too.“The UK effectively encourages dealers in Vietnam and Mauritius to stock their factory farms by trapping wild monkeys.”Latest figures show a 12 per cent rise in use at British labs.
Researchers need to know how each animal relates to the rest of the group to assess the significance of family ties. If they had not intervened, they say, his injuries were so severe he would have died.The researchers say that attacks from other predators "cannot be discounted" but that the wounds they observed were consistent with other spider monkey attacks.Infanticide also opens up the female to mating again. But instead of living in the forest with her mom as she should been, Almond was being kept as a pet by a family in Bali, Indonesia. Another female adult … Under EU law, use of F1s will be phased out by 2023.It seemed the UK Government was moving towards this deadline, with no F1s used in British labs from 2014 to 2016, and just one in 2017. But there are concerns this could spiral out of control if there is deregulation and an abandoning of EU rules after A total of 2,606 long-tailed macaques were imported into Britain last year, 2,064 from Mauritius and 542 from Vietnam.In Mauritius ADI filmed pregnant monkeys being manhandled and pinned down, and monkeys swung by their tails at key breeding facility, Biodia.In Vietnam they saw monkeys kept in small rusting cages which were in a state of collapse.Most primates (2,148) were last year used for regulatory safety tests on substances and would endure force-feeding or injections of experimental compounds and full body restraints.To help, ask your MP to back Early Day Motion 2228: Developing Innovative Science – Better for Animals and People.When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters.
An animal welfare charity is calling on the Government to act after the heartbreaking video shows a baby monkey being taken away from its parentsWhat is really going on in politics? A female spider monkey typically only gives birth every three years, but this is reduced to 9-10 months if her child dies.That is in line with existing theories about infanticide. Another female adult was then seen hugging a motherless child.This baby was later saved by the research team and reunited with his mother. What's more, the infants were all from the monkeys' own social groups.Over 119 species of mammal are known to commit infanticide, including about 35 primate species. Almond was a long-tailed macaque monkey, and a baby at that. Published on Sep 20, 2012 This troop of Macaque Monkeys battle to protect their Indian temple home from a rival troop.
A male was observed being violent towards a mother with a young baby In the current research, Sarah Alvarez from the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain and colleagues studied three different species of spider monkey in Ecuador, Colombia and Belize: In one case, a male was observed being violent towards a mother, named Kuao, with a young baby. A total of 246 offspring of wild-caught monkeys, known as “F1” primates were used in UK labs last year, accounting for some 10 per cent of primate use. But a new study of spider monkeys has found that, in this species, only the male infants are targeted. The mother and one of the other males had injuries, suggesting a fight had taken place. A new study observes male spider monkeys killing male babies in order to prevent further sexual competitionMale infanticide among mammals is quite common, and infants of either sex can be killed.
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