COYOTES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

New Jersey Animal Rights
Alliance member Stuart Chaifetz o n
January 26 began a fast intended to last all 22
days of the state’s second-ever coyote season.
Just five coyotes were killed during the 1997
season, but 900 hunters bought permits this
year to pursue the estimated 1,500 coyotes
who inhabit New Jersey.
Colorado state senator Dorothy
R u p e r t has introduced a bill, SB 144, to
rescind a bounty on wolves and coyotes set by
the Colorado Territorial Legislature in 1869.
Utah trapper Shane Cornwall,
38, of Payson, a 13-year employee of the
state Wildlife Services division, was killed
and helicopter pilot Allen H. Carter, 57, was
injured on January 14 when they flew into a
canyon wall after a day of strafing coyotes.

Oryx

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

SAN ANGELO, Tex.– –
The Endangered Species Propagation,
Survival and Research Center, of San
Angelo, Texas, on February 10
exported 62 Arabian oryxes to the
United Arab Emirates. The oryxes––
16 bucks and 46 does––are to be reintroduced
to their native range.
The original wild Arabian
oryx population was hunted to extinction
by 1972, but Operation Oryx,
formed by the Flora and Fauna
Preservation Society in 1962, reintroduced
the species to Oman in 1982.

Worse out west

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

ALBUQUERQUE––At least
9,600 cattle and sheep died of cold and starvation
in deep snow that hit southeastern
New Mexico during late December and
early January, with the toll expected to soar
when spring enables ranchers to more accurately
count the victims.
The New Mexico Cattle Growers
Association predicted that 35,000 cattle and
60,000 sheep were at dire risk.
Some were saved when seven Air
National Guard C-130 cargo planes from
Texas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming airdropped
at least 465 tons of feed.
But the inability of drift-bound
livestock to find food and water was only
part of the problem. Western ranchers
aren’t used to having to round up animals in
mid-winter, nor do most have enough barn
space for more than a fraction of their stock.

FARMS ON THIN ICE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

MONTREAL, MONTPELIER,
PORTLAND––First came the ice, and then
came the government.
A warming trend possibly resulting
from either the El Nino effect off the Pacific
coast or global warming in general ironically
froze much of the northeast in January,
killing thousands of animals. Between the
disaster and regulatory changes soon to take
effect, animal agriculture might never be the
same in southern Quebec, eastern Ontario,
upstate New York, and upper New England.
The crisis began early on January 7
when a heavy snow storm changed to rain.

Geneticists clone bull

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

BOSTON––Geneticists James Robl
of the University of Massachusetts and Steven
Stice of Advanced Cell Technology Inc. told
the International Embryo Transfer Society on
January 20 that they’d managed to clone some
prime Texas bull––the first bull ever cloned by
their method, believed to be the most efficient
of the three methods now experimentally tried.
Robl and Stice said the two offspring,
George and Charlie, represented in
Robl’s words, “a significant step” toward turning
genetically modified dairy cattle into walking
drug factories, who synthesize medicines in
their milk. But both cloned offspring are male.
Acknowledging that inconvenience, Robl and
Stice said they had several pregnant cows carrying
female cloned fetuses. The fetuses were
genetically altered to produce cows who eventually
should produce milk containing human
serum albumin, an important protein used in
maintaining hospital emergency blood supplies.

In America cruelty is “culture.” Kindness may be “crime.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

SAN FRANCISCO––Hidden cameras have
caught live animal vendors at Asian-style markets
countless times in atrocities––not just in San Francisco,
where the markets are a heated public issue, but in virtually
every U.S. and Canadian city with a Chinatown.
The alleged offenses only begin with selling
the animals alive to assure buyers that the meat is fresh.
Reported the San Francisco SPCA to the California Fish
and Game Commission on January 23, 1998, “Frogs
are typically piled in large containers or confined in
wire cages without food or water. We have seen containers
we estimated held over 100 frogs, piled several
layers deep. Injured, bloodied, and dead frogs, some
with their sides split open, were plainly visible. We
have also witnessed turtles having their shells sliced
from their bodies while fully alive and being hacked and
pounded repeatedly with dull knives before being
decapitated. At one market, our investigator found a
turtle still moving with its carapace cut open and its
internal organs displayed in full view of shoppers.”

BLM may kill captured horses

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

RENO––Bureau of Land
Management director Patrick A. Shea on
February 9 told the newly convened
nine-member Wild Horse and Burro
Advisory Board that while he would
“Oppose the wholesale slaughter” of wild
equines, he would accept a recommendation,
if the board makes it, that unadoptable
horses should be euthanized.
BLM Wild Horse Program head
Tom Pagacnik explained that horses over
age 9 are rarely placed because they resist
gentling, yet might live to age 40 on a
refuge––at cost of about $900 per year.
A three-member fact-finding
panel told the board that some wild horses
lose 200-300 pounds from transport stress
as they are hauled around the U.S. to
adoption events where they repeatedly go
unclaimed––but the BLM has no way to
identify such so-called “frequent flyers.”

CLINTON BUDGET BOOSTS NIH, NPS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

WASHINGTON D.C.– – The
U.S. budget for fiscal 1999 announced by
President Bill Clinton on February 2
includes a record $170 billion for civilian
research and development over the next
five years. The National Institutes of
Health would get an immediate funding
increase of $1.15 billion, giving it a 1999
budget of $14.8 billion, and would be
scheduled to get $20 billion in 2004.
NIH head Harold Varmus told
media that the money, if allocated by
Congress, would be divided among studies
of cancer, diabetes, brain disorders,
asthma, and AIDS.

WHAT’S TO BECOME OF A BARREL OF MONKEYS?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

MADISON, Wisconsin––Virginia Hinshaw, dean
of graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison,
on February 3 gave Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk until
March 2 to find a way to keep 100 rhesus macaques and 50
stump-tailed macaques at the Vilas Zoo, their longtime home.
The Vilas Zoo has long housed the macaques under
contract to the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center,
funded by the National Institutes of Health. American Zoo
Association policy has discouraged the use of zoo animals in
research since 1986, but the Vilas Zoo arrangement, dating to
1963, predated the policy.
The macaque colonies are descended from those who
provided subjects for the notorious isolation experiments of the
late Harry Harlow, who moved his work to the University of
Arizona in 1971 and died in 1981. They are the oldest stable
breeding colonies of macaques in captivity. About 1,300 kin
are at separate facilities on the university campus.

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