How NIH Props Up This Animal Misery Industry’s ‘Terrible 10’
Twenty-five monkeys died from dehydration after being denied veterinary care when they arrived in Houston from Cambodia and were then trucked hundreds of miles, and an infant monkey died from trauma and hypothermia after becoming trapped while trying to escape through a fence.
Trafficking in Misery: The Primate Trade - junglefriends.org
The monkeys were pig-tailed macaques, a species classified as "vulnerable" by the World Conservation Union. Captured in traps set in the forests of Indonesia, the animals were on their way to the Regional Primate Center at the University of Washington to …
Primates in Laboratories - PETA
Every year in the U.S., more than 113,000 primates are imprisoned in laboratories, where most of them are abused and killed in invasive, painful, and terrifying experiments. While it is well known that primates are sensitive, intelligent beings, experimenters treat them as if they were disposable pieces of laboratory equipment.
Campaign Updates: Monkey Fright Experiments at NIH | PETA
2020年2月24日 · Funded by millions in taxpayer dollars, National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimenter Elisabeth Murray sucks out or burns parts of monkeys’ brains, confines the animals to a metal box, and then terrorizes them with rubber snakes and spiders. PETA is waging a campaign to end these experiments—and you can help.
Monkeys in Elisabeth Murray’s Lab: Agony, Misery, and Death - PETA
2022年10月27日 · National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimenter Elisabeth Murray used a monkey named Chaplin and five others to death so she could publish a paper probing these not-so-burning questions: Would the monkeys attribute feelings to animated shapes on a video screen? Would they interpret shapes bumping into each other as “fighting” or, maybe, “mocking”?
The Silver Spring Monkeys: The Case That Launched PETA
Monkeys were placed in this “conditioning chamber”—a sound- and light-proof converted refrigerator fitted with a plexiglass restraining device—with electrodes taped to one of their limbs. The monkeys were then repeatedly shocked until they used their disabled arm, if they could.
Colombian Monkeys Seized From NIH-Funded Laboratory | PETA
2023年1月1日 · Authorities from the Colombian environmental agency Corporación Autónoma Regional del Valle del Cauca (CVC) have seized more than 100 tiny owl monkeys, who were being kept in horrific conditions, from the decrepit laboratory at the center of PETA’s damning 18-month investigation.
Who Is Beamish? Meet a Monkey Used in Experiments | PETA
Meet Beamish, a 18-year-old monkey now imprisoned in the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Maryland laboratory. His medical records are pockmarked with episodes of extensive hair loss, an external indicator of extreme psychological stress.
Meet Activists Working to Save Monkeys in ASU’s Labs
2021年4月22日 · There are thousands of others—monkeys, mice, rats, chinchillas, fish, lizards, octopus, and more—who are forced to live and work for experimenters doing cruel, unnatural things behind the walls of ASU’s shrouded research facilities.
Action for Primates
2022年7月12日 · Please join Action for Primates and Lady Freethinker urging Cambodian officials to crack down on the illegal keeping of macaques in private homes, take action against the people who are subjecting monkeys to abuse and cruelty, and confiscate any illegally held captive monkeys so that they may be relocated to a reputable sanctuary where they may ...