We report three randomised and pre-registered experiments examining the effects of narrative fiction (vs. non-fiction vs. expository non-fiction) on concern for animal welfare. In Experiment 1a (N = 363) there was no significant increase in welfare or willingness to donate an charity among participants who read a text about monkey's plight texts monkey). 1b =121) greater after reading compared ...

CYP2G2P is pseudogenized in humans because of two nonsense mutations (c.76C>T in exon 1 and c.382C>T in exon 3) in the putative coding region of the gene sequence, whereas mouse, rat, and rabbit CYP2Gs are expressed and functional in nasal mucosa. In this study, we assessed the intactness of CYP2G in a cynomolgus monkey, a macaque species important for drug metabolism studies because of its evo...

In Japan, yaen kōen or “wild monkey parks” are popular visitor attractions that show free-ranging monkey troops to the paying public. Unlike zoos, which display nonhuman animals through confinement, monkey parks control the movements of the monkeys through provisioning. The parks project an image of themselves as “natural zoos,” claiming to practice a more authentic form of displaying animals-i...

The monkey with removal of the inferotemporal cortex (IT monkey) showed a marked impairment of discrimination between a pair of visual pattern stimuli, which consisted of different patterns on the identical background [corrected] plaques. The present study showed that an IT monkey, unlike an unoperated normal monkey, performed discrimination with utilizing a partial cue within the whole configu...

1. The South American ringtail monkey, Cebus capucina, has been infected with the virus of poliomyelitis as found in ultracentrifuged concentrates from poliomyelitic human stools. 2. This species was also found susceptible to poliomyelitis virus found in rhesus and cynomolgus monkey cords, representing early generations of virus derived from two different human sources and from flies trapped in...

The activity of glutathione-S-transferase (GST) in blood cells, liver, spleen and gonads in five Black Sea fish species horse mackerel Trachurus mediterraneus (Staindachner), high body pickarel Spicara flexuosa (Rafinesque), shore rockling Gaidropsarus mediterraneus (L.), round goby Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas), scorpion fish Scorpaena porcus (L.) caught in coastal area of Sevastopol (Black ...

A microsatellite-enriched genomic library for marble goby (Oxyeleotris marmoratus), a freshwater fish of considerable economic value, was obtained. A total of 16 microsatellite markers were successfully isolated and characterized in a population from the Mekong River in Vietnam. These markers had 2-20 alleles with expected heterozygosity ranging from 0.0370 to 0.8927. Linkage equilibrium was ob...