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Robert Joseph White (January 21, 1926 – September 16, 2010) was an American neurosurgeon and bioethicist best known for his work on hypothermia and his experiments with head transplants on mammals, including living monkeys.
A Rhesus monkey at a research facility in Bastrop, Texas in 2011. (Houston Chronicle via Getty Images file) A police search is underway after 43 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South ...
Morgan Island is uninhabited, and is home to a breeding colony of approximately 3,500 free-ranging, Indian-origin rhesus monkeys. There is a 370-acre (150 ha) portion of upland that supports a semi-tropical maritime forest where the monkey colony primarily resides.
Albert I – (rhesus monkey) the first primate and first mammal launched on a rocket (a June 18, 1948 V-2 flight), although it did not reach space. Albert II – (rhesus monkey) the first primate and first mammal in space, June 14, 1949. Died upon hitting the ground due to a parachute failure
More than 40 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina earlier this month, prompting warnings for nearby residents to secure their doors and windows. Thirty-nine of the fugitive ...
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] Living conditions at the facility are inspected bi-annually by the USDA in unannounced visits. Animal rights activists have ...
The pit of despair was a name used by American comparative psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, technically called a vertical chamber apparatus, that he used in experiments on rhesus macaque monkeys at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1970s. [2]
However, a rhesus monkey was cloned in 1999 using what researchers consider a simpler cloning method. In that case, scientists split the embryos, much like what happens naturally when identical ...