Guest BFSleuth Posted April 25, 2012 Posted April 25, 2012 Tim, I edited your post to provide the link to the BFRO report. I've read that one before and it is very interesting behavior on the part of both the dogs and the BF. Pretty obvious they have some sort of friendly prior contact with each other.
Guest Posted April 27, 2012 Posted April 27, 2012 Edited to add: Maybe it's about time we (as humans) stopped trying to peg animal behavior. We've become accustomed to it over the years because science has grown a bit lazy in looking to simplistic behavioral models for answers. At least, as I just heard today, the feds may be about to discontinue invasive research on Chimpanzees http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/04/chimpanzee-bill-recieves-first-hearing.html Others, including the Jane Goodall Institute , the Max Planck Institute and Duke University have limited themselves to non-invasive lines of study for some time now.
Guest BFSleuth Posted April 27, 2012 Posted April 27, 2012 The "invasive" nature of the research addressed in the bill has to do with medical research. Full text of bill: http://thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.1513: Another source reports about the bill: "The Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (H.R.1513/S.810) was reintroduced on April 18, 2011 to the 112th Congress in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. This legislation, which will end the use of chimpanzees in invasive biomedical research and retire all federally-owned chimpanzees to permanent sanctuary, has the leadership of Representative Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) and Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT). The bill currently has 164 cosponsors in the House and 15 cosponsors in the Senate. Read more: http://www.releasechimps.org/mission/change-laws/the-great-ape-protection-act/#ixzz1tDhYBdnd
Guest Cervelo Posted April 27, 2012 Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) Cervelo, I get it. My Dad's the same way. He describes an upright bear killing his old english sheepdog when he was summering in the rockies at eight. The bear stepped forward, struck Chowder once, then turned, and walked into the woods on two feet. Awww come on I'm that bad!! I'm I????LOL If I saw that I would say I saw Bigfoot kill my dog for sure and be quite pissed about it!! Edited April 27, 2012 by Cervelo
JDL Posted April 27, 2012 Posted April 27, 2012 Just funnin'. Dad's finally coming around, though. He's had something yelling at him from the woods recently.
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