Um simples acto de compaixão e de simultânea arrogância leva-nos a uma guerra como até hoje não assistimos – a ascensão do planeta dos macacos. Tal acontecimento transforma-se numa nova revolução, e como em qualquer transformação do surgir do inesperado, novas mentalidades crescem acompanhando novos perigos, desta vez protagonizados pela ascensão do fenómeno símio...
Tendo conquistado Harvard, a jovem Elle é agora uma ascendente advogada de uma prestigiada firma, conjugando a sua exigente carreira com os preparativos para o casamento com o homem dos seus sonhos. Mas, quando descobre que os familiares do seu cãozinho de estimação, estão a ser usados para testes de cosmética, por uma das firmas sua cliente, Elle insurge-se contra a situação e luta pelos direitos dos animais, sendo então prontamente despedida pelos seus superiores.
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, stuggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.
Two cats housed in a glass box, one of which had received a small amount of atropine in the preliminary experiment, are exposed to ether vapors with the result that only the animal which had not been pretreated began to salivate (profusely).
Parasympathetic irritation is generated in the test animal by subcutaneous injection of muscarine. Salivary secretion, miosis, convulsive evacuation of thin feces and severe shortness of breath as signs of intoxication with a parasympathomimetic. The symptoms of intoxication are reversed by subcutaneous injection of atropine.
Compulsory locomotion and continuous circular movement to the operated side without orientation in case of a onesided removal of the cerebrum and corpus striatum. In case of a doublesided removal there are no spontaneous movements with a normal posture and movement coordination. The dogs' reaction towards external stimuli only.
Resorptive symptoms of intoxication after injection of cocaine in cats. Motor and vegetative arousal stages, tonic-clonic spasms and their spread in the motor system are shown in the individual phases of the poisoning.
The movie shows the consequences of total and partial removal of the epithelial bodies in a cat
After a deadly car accident, a boy finds himself trapped in a sinister hospital and begins to wonder if he could be more than human.
Demonstration of the rapid poisoning of a cat hung up in a cloth, strychnine as a trigger of the tonic form of convulsions.
Maximum Tolerated Dose is the first feature-length documentary by Decipher Films. Equal parts found-footage mash-up, verité investigation, and artful meditation, the film charts the lives of both humans and non-humans who have experienced animal testing first-hand, with hauntingly honest testimony of scientists and lab technicians whose ethics demanded they choose a different path, as well as the simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking stories of animals who have seen both sides of the cage. MTD aims to re-ignite the debate about animal testing by bringing these rarely-heard perspectives to the fore.
Anita has been suffering under the tyranny of the scientists at an animal research clinic for years. When she meets the pig Sirius, she realizes that she has to take her fate into her own hands.
This year, the building of the Oxford animal lab has triggered the most important conflict between scientists and the animal rights movement for a century.