# Monkeys
Monkeys & Smugglers @ Texas Border
(This article was assisted by AI) Once again comes word from the border with Mexico about the smuggling of Spider Monkeys. The latest report is from Calexico, but before that, we also received reports about Spider Monkeys being smuggled into Texas at Brownsville's Gateway International Bridge in June, at the Progresso International Bridge in January, and again through Brownsville in March of last year, and -- well, you get the picture.
Texas Border: Spider Monkeys & Smugglers
Today we bring you true tales of Smugglers and Spider Monkeys from the Texas-Mexico border. We begin with the smugglers who have had a bad time lately with the Texas Highway Patrol. Officers in Uvalde County broke up a human smuggling attempt:
The Monkey in the Room: How Paralyzed People Can Reach, Grasp
By Matthew R. Bailey, president, Foundation for Biomedical Research; and Leah Yonkovich, senior manager of digital communication, Foundation for Biomedical Research. Paralyzed humans can reach and grasp again through robotic arm movement because of research with monkeys that spanned more than four decades.
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Monkey Research Unlocks Treatments for Depression, Anxiety
By National Institutes of Health neuroscientist emeritus Robert Wurtz, PhD and Foundation for Biomedical Research senior manager of digital communication Leah Yonkovich. Basic research in medicine analyzes the fundamentals of diseases and treatments. It requires the use of animals to understand how a living organism works when healthy and what goes wrong when disease strikes. Basic research with monkeys – hereby referred to as nonhuman primates – helps scientists understand and develop better treatments for psychiatric disorders including anxiety and depression.
Apes Seek Altered Mental State, Get Dizzy on Purpose
You’ve probably seen the viral videos: gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees spinning round and round until they fall over in an elated state of dizziness. Now researchers publishing a study in Primates magazine hope to use the behavior to unlock mysteries around the effects of mind-altering substances on the development of our earliest ancestors.
U.S. court grants personhood to Pablo Escobar's hippos; photographer, and PETA settle macaque selfie copyright lawsuit
If you are an optimist, you could call it a win. Since when was 1-1, a bad season’s record? Or maybe, we just call it a draw. In 2021, a U.S federal court ruled that “The offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized as people or "interested persons.” This was in response to a lawsuit filed against the Colombian government which was weighing between sterilizing or killing the hippos whose exploding numbers have become a threat to biodiversity.
Opinion: Are people really that stupid? Leave the monkeys alone.
Monkeypox Header(Shutterstock) When your child gets Chicken pox, do you go out and kill the chickens? Just as chickens are not to blame, monkeys are not to blame for the spread of Monkeypox. In fact, many different animals can carry the ‘monkey’ pox virus, including rats and squirrels.