Charles River charged after deaths of chimps
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The deaths of two chimpanzees named Ashley and Rex, and a close call for a third, Topsy, at a government facility in the New Mexico desert have resulted in criminal charges against Wilmington's Charles River Laboratories, the world's largest supplier of lab animals.
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An anthrax outbreak has killed 120 hippos in Uganda, raising the toll from a disease that has claimed hundreds of wild animals in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia in recent weeks, a senior official said Tuesday.
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Photographer and conservationist Karl Ammann discusses why he takes often shocking photos of African apes and other rare animals killed for meat. With photo galleries.
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Chimpy Spears Chimpanzees in West Africa have been observed using sharpened branches as "spears" to hunt other primates.â¦
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Five Washington state American Indian hunters may face prosecution from their tribe after shooting and killing a gray whale in the midst of a charged legal dispute over tribal whaling.
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HAYWARD, Wis. - The hunter charged in the murders of six other hunters is to make his initial court appearance on Tuesday. Chai Vang, 36, was charged Monday with six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.
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Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans.
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The deadly Ebola virus may have killed more than 5,000 gorillas in central Africa, a study finds.
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By Tom Pelton, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 22--SWAN POINT -- A combination of disease and last week's sudden cold snap might have caused the death of about 50,000 white perch in the Potomac River near this Southern Maryland community, state officials said.
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The husband and wife owners of a nursing home near New Orleans were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty in the deaths of 35 patients who perished in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Missing canoeist John Darwin and his wife have been charged with further offences, police reveal.
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A woman has been charged with animal cruelty for what police call a retaliatory killing of a parakeet. Witnesses told police that Andrea Grantham, of Martinsburg, brandished a knife during a weekend property dispute with a neighbor.
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AMSTERDAM -- Dozens of chimpanzees from a Dutch laboratory face a housing crisis after plans for their early retirement on the Spanish coast collapsed because of residents' fears they would carry infectious diseases.
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CHICAGO - Authorities were considering criminal charges Wednesday against the Dave Matthews Band and one of its tour bus drivers for allegedly dumping human waste from a bus into the Chicago River, dousing a tour boat filled with passengers.    The announcement came a day after the state sued the band and driver Stefan Wohl, accusing them of violating state water pollution and public nuisance laws...
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Female chimps in Senegal are fashioning sticks into spears to hunt and kill their prey. A leading primatologist on what it means for monkeys--and mankind.
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Scientists discover the first definitive evidence that HIV made the jump from chimpanzees to people in the forests of Cameroon
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PORTERDALE, Ga. - Eighteen cat skeletons were found in a home where a couple was being evicted, and now the couple faces animal cruelty charges.