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Eight Unidentified From Yerkes Are Not Forgotten


Animals  (tags: yerkes, labratories, primates tortured, experiments, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 142 days ago - primatefreedom.com
The infant pictured here was one of eight macaques used for durations of 3 to 24 weeks and was fitted with the goggles shown on the first day of their lives to decorrelate their vision under the claim of studying infantile esotropia. Like so many similar
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Jeanette Steffi G. (131)
Friday August 7, 2009, 9:27 am
Those poor macaques. Made to do things they don't naturally do. They're supposed to be taught natural things. Things their mothers would teach them. Survival skills, climbing trees, everything. Not having their eyes "remodelled."
 

BigCatRescue A. (193)
Friday August 7, 2009, 10:32 am
Thanks Simone, it's all so infuriating, message sent to Seantor Kennedy
 
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