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  2. Residents warned after 43 monkeys escape research facility - AOL

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    Rhesus macaques were imported to the U.S. in the 1970s for biomedical research in ... Get some last-minute shopping done at the Kate Spade Outlet sale — up to 70% off plus an extra 25% off ...

  3. Rhesus macaque - Wikipedia

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    The rhesus macaque is diurnal, arboreal, and terrestrial. It is mostly herbivorous, feeding mainly on fruit, but also eating seeds, roots, buds, bark, and cereals. Rhesus macaques living in cities also eat human food and trash. They are gregarious, with troops comprising 20–200 individuals. The social groups are matrilineal. Individuals ...

  4. Tetra (monkey) - Wikipedia

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    Tetra (born October 12, 1999) is a rhesus macaque that was created through a cloning technique called "embryo splitting". She is the first "cloned" primate by artificial twinning, and was created by a team led by Professor Gerald Schatten of the Oregon National Primate Research Center .

  5. What we know after 43 monkeys escaped a South Carolina ...

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    The rhesus macaques are Asian, Old World monkeys that are primarily found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Southeast Asia and China. Rhesus Macaque monkeys living at the Shrine of Hazrat Chasni Pir.

  6. Oregon National Primate Research Center - Wikipedia

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    The center maintains a colony of 4,200 non-human primates (consisting of rhesus monkeys, Japanese macaques, vervets, baboons and cynomolgus macaques), [6] cared for by 12 veterinarians and 100 full-time technicians. [7]

  7. Big Pharma’s great lab monkey shortage: A crackdown on ...

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    It was the rhesus macaque that played a starring role in the polio vaccine race: Between the 1930s and the 1950s, America sometimes imported more than 100,000 per year from India—monkeys that ...

  8. Monkeys that escaped a lab are a species used for human ...

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    The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity, revealing our strengths and weaknesses through their own clever behaviors, organ systems and genetic code.

  9. Macaque - Wikipedia

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    Nearly all (73–100%) captive rhesus macaques are carriers of the herpes B virus. This virus is harmless to macaques, but infections of humans, while rare, are potentially fatal, a risk that makes macaques unsuitable as pets. [19]