The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the National ...

For example, a rhesus monkey named ''Miss Sam'' was launched in 1960 in a Mercury capsule that attained a velocity of 1,800 mph (1,900 kph) and an altitude of 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) . She was ...

The rhesus macaque monkeys, all females, made a break for it after police say an employee did not fully lock their enclosure at Alpha Genesis, a facility that breeds them for medical research — ...

Forty-three rhesus monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis in Yemassee, SC, after an employee error. The young monkeys are being located using thermal cameras and baited ...

3. Removal from home cage. Laboratory rhesus monkeys quickly learn to enter transport cages on command when they have to be temporarily removed for treatment, examination, weighing, TB testing, or ...

The myth of the aggressive monkey probably is based on often not taking into account basic ethological principles when managing rhesus macaques in the research laboratory setting. Macaca mulatta is ...

In the middle of the Caribbean Sea, over 1,000 rhesus macaques live on an island that measures less than a tenth of a mile ...

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An infant rhesus macaque is held by an adult as photographed ... The island and its 3,000 monkeys are managed by Yemassee's Alpha Genesis for the National Institutes of Health.

A top national research lab – the National Animal Resource ... “There was a time before the 1990s when the rhesus monkey numbers were low. But this has changed. These monkeys are aggressive ...

James Harrison’s legacy is at the heart of a wild story about canny science, boundless goodwill and an errant blood transfusion vanquishing a devastating and deadly disease.

unedited livestreamed audiovisual feed of the macaques in the lab of the supervisor of the testing on the monkeys. The group said that scientists have found “rhesus macaques can communicate ...