Intentional Behavior and Cruelty: Video Snips

Interesting clips of animals acting with intention and planning and disturbing clips of primates (mostly) being hurt in various bogus research projects.

This is a nice short overview asking why we don't seem to recognize that intelligent life is all around us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxOCN4K9jg

Here is a crow using and modifying a tool in a laboratory setting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ykewnc0oE

Naysayers (think bigots) might claim that learned behavior in a laboratory isn't really an indication of intentional behavior and mind. Maybe the crow in the clip above was taught to behave in this way over time, and maybe he or she isn't really goal directed. Here's an example of more diligent tool fashioning by a wild crow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esfo6Wh-Ty8

Interspecies interpersonal relationships are significant challenges to claims that animals are not independent agents. In this clip, a crow befriends a young cat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6mfHFLLc4U

Here's a clip from the Ellen DeGeneres Show of a dog who is clearly acting with intent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkbdSOZuass

This is a collection of three snips. All three show goal-directed planning. The animal escaping from the pit is an African animal called a ratel or honey badger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NdVGVbw9-M

This is a video of a bonobo named Kanzi playing Pacman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ttRaXlnfs

This a snip of the widely publicized early 1950s experiment designed by the infamous Harry Harlow that demonstrated what everyone already knew. It amounted to little more child abuse. Of note is the term used to describe the housing conditons: "semi-isolation." In the labs today, the sides of the cages are solid and the isolation more profound, yet, the labs consistently and uniformily claim that the monkeys are not isolated because they have visual and auditory contact with other monkeys.


This is the story of Britches, an infant stumptailed macaque rescued by "terrorists" (ALF) from a lab at the University of California-Riverside in 1985. If rescuing this baby is terrorism, then I'm pro-terrorism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd95gVyFo5U

This is child abuse as rocket science. The chimpanzee is named Ham.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RJxAqisaWg

This is undercover footage taken inside the Covance lab in Vienna, Virginia. Every lab claims that the animals they hurt and kill are treated with respect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4fmLezLbXI

This is a tightly edited piece that says that hurting an owl monkey is justified if crippled humans might be helped. What isn't shown are the surgeries or the life the monkey is being forced to endure. Why are drawings used rather than shots of the monkey? This monkey is a victim of our self-importance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-cpcoIJbOU

This is part of the hours upon hours of video taken inside the NIH Oregon National Primate Research Center by Matt Rossell while he was working as an environmental enrichment technician.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgh_QUdbkaY

This is the result of experimental brain operations. No one other than the vivisector who did this benefited whatsoever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVG7n_jRhdI

This is undercover video from inside Huntingdon Life Sciences. The knowledge that this is going on day in and day out and that government supports and defends such cruelty is the main reason that some people are compelled to take direct action to stop it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNUjkM_DC_A

A series of stills from within the monkey labs to the accompanyment of Maria Daines' "Monkey in a Cage."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RERCFCCgqo

Know of other snips demonstrating animal mind and/or crulty in the monky labs? Send me a link.