I don't know what Johns Hopkins does or does not do but you can't trust PETA. Indeed, NIH itself has reported that his experiments on owls have a shockingly dismal 5% Approximate Potential to Translate to human health, determined by the very low likelihood that his published papers will be cited in later clinical trials or guidelines. Given this flagrant violation of state law, weve also reiterated our demand that the DNR revoke Mysores current permit to keep owls in his laboratory and prohibit him from obtaining any such permits in the future. Owls at Johns Hopkins Lab: You Won't Be Able to Unhear Their Screams 89,622 views Oct 19, 2020 1.9K Dislike Save PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) 580K subscribers Notice. For example, PETA learned through a public records request that Mysore conducted his experiments from 2015 to 2018 even though his old permit had lapsed. The owls endure two to three invasive surgeries before Mysore uses them in experiments. Mysores mutilation and killing of owls (details below) can be exempt from Marylands cruelty-to-animals laws only if his invasive experiments are approved by JHUs Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC). People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google. I just got a PETA add on youtube of owls screeching in pain - Reddit Mysore claims that his experiments could help humans, but owls have well-developed auditory and visual systems that are specialized in target selection (unlike humans). New masking guidelines are in effect starting April 24. Please call Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels at 410-516-8068 and politely urge him to end Mysore's experiments on barn owls. All the owls are killed at the end of the experiments. Share this video with your friends and family on Facebook: Please write a polite review on Google urging Johns Hopkins to end Mysores gruesome experiments on owls. The department then issued another permit that specifically barred the killing of these animals, which should have ended the experiments. Update (March 17, 2020): PETA has fired off a letter to Johns Hopkins University (JHU) today and released damning reports and photographs obtained from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that reveal the extent to which animals imprisoned in the university's laboratories suffer as a result of negligence, incompetence, and a stunning disregard for their lives. Johns Hopkins Medicine reports that a team of Hopkins experts, led by medical illustrator Fabian de Kok-Mercado, have figured out how owls can almost fully rotate their headswithout damaging delicate blood vessels in their necks and heads, and without cutting off blood supply to their brains. This owl is one of many imprisoned in Shreesh Mysores laboratory, where he cuts into their skulls and screws metal devices onto their heads in curiosity-driven experiments with no relevance to human health. Johns Hopkins: Stop Torturing Owls! - Facebook Mysorewho from 2015 to 2018 failed to obtain mandatory permits to possess barn owls legally for use in his experiments and who admitted in his federal funding application his plan to kill the owls, even though doing so would void his legally required Scientific Collecting permitshas received more than $1.9 million in taxpayer money from NIH to mutilate owls brains.