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Fortrea primate-testing lab, Vienna, Virginia, 2004–05. Most of the NHPs used are one of three species of macaques, accounting for 79% of all primates used in research in the UK, and 63% of all federally funded research grants for projects using primates in the U.S. [25] Lesser numbers of marmosets, tamarins, spider monkeys, owl monkeys, vervet monkeys, squirrel monkeys, and baboons are used ...
The Monkey Drug Trials of 1969 were a series of controversial animal testing experiments that were conducted on primates to study the effects of various psychoactive substances. The trials shed light on the profound effects of drug addiction and withdrawal in primates, pioneering critical insights into human substance abuse.
The Emory National Primate Research Center (formerly known as Yerkes National Primate Research Center) [1] located in Atlanta, Georgia, owned by Emory University, [2] is a center of biomedical and behavioral research, is dedicated to improving human and animal health, and is the oldest of seven National Primate Research Centers partially funded by the National Institutes of Health.
An account of experiments on the monkeys, project details, costs, and U.S. Department of Agriculture pain categories that classify animal pain or distress in research facilities. The Animal ...
A rhesus macaque monkey infected with the Zika virus (Getty) ... a UK-based defender of animal testing said claims of a divide between scientists were being exaggerated by animal rights campaigners.
In the ferocious rhetoric of pro- or anti-animal testing partisans, animal researchers are either craven monkey torturers running frivolous experiments or unimpeachable practitioners of life ...
In 2005, over 50 monkeys escaped from their cage into the surrounding area of the TNPRC. Four of the primates died or were never found. [7] [8] In 2006, thirteen baboons were killed after being placed in a crowded chute. [9] In September 2012, a rhesus macaque was inadvertently left in an unattended vehicle for approximately 22 hours.
Pages in category "Animal testing on non-human primates" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. ... Monkeys and apes in space; T.