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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. [1]
The rhesus macaque was also used in the well-known experiments on maternal deprivation carried out in the 1950s by controversial comparative psychologist Harry Harlow. Other medical breakthroughs facilitated by the use of the rhesus macaque include: [74] development of the rabies, smallpox, and polio vaccines; creation of drugs to manage HIV/AIDS
In Rhesus macaques, male's providing protection and greater access to food resulted in higher weight gain for both male and female infants. [34] This had a positive effect on infant survival and was significant in the first year of infancy when the risk of infanticide is the highest. [27] [34]
The Cercopithecinae are a subfamily of the Old World monkeys, which comprises roughly 71 species, including the baboons, the macaques, and the vervet monkeys.Most cercopithecine monkeys are limited to sub-Saharan Africa, although the macaques range from the far eastern parts of Asia through northern Africa, as well as on Gibraltar.
Monkey clinging to the cloth mother surrogate in fear test. Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development.
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.
Forty-three Rhesus macaque monkeys broke out of the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center Nov. 6, according to a Yemassee Police Department statement. As of Nov. 11, Yemassee Police Department ...
Macaque (Macaca radiata) 153 169 161 [8] ... The level of development at birth. More developed infants will typically require a longer gestation period.