Rhesus Macaque

including rhesus monkeys, cynomolgus monkeys, squirrel monkeys, pig-tailed macaques, and chimpanzees. From 1948-49 they successfully launched a series of suborbital V-2 flights occupied by monkeys but the recovery systems didn’t work so well, and the monkeys died in the crash. Among these monkeys was a rhesus monkey named Albert, he was sent to an altitude of 39 miles in June 1948. He sadly died of suffocation during his ride along with his brothers who had also died for the cause. Another rhesus monkey

ANTH 301 – Adoption – Research Paper The textbook explains adoption as human beings caring for non-human primates. In an article from the California State University, Fullerton library in the Anthropology department, an Anthropology researcher, Stein writes “about behavioral definitions of adoption are scarce.” (Stein) The concept of “change of primary caregiver” is central in adoption, but as will be seen, adoptors are often individuals other than adult females. Also, measuring attachment can prove

One form of nonhuman primate communication that occurs in the wild is through noises (Zuberbuhler 6). Most primates have species specific sounds for certain situations (Zuberbuhler 6). For example, vervet monkeys have different alarm calls for different types of predators (Zuberbuhler 10). The listeners of these calls respond to each call differently, protecting themselves from specific predators (Zuberbuhler 10). This means that they are not just reacting to another monkey being scared, but they

Many of the monkeys living on Cayo Santiago, an island off Puerto Rico, are going to have survived Hurricane Maria, which pulverized the island on September 20th. The tempest's fallout has left the island's more than 1,500 rhesus macaques—including some utilized for autism research. Maria's 155-mile-per-hour winds leveled a field station, stripped trees of their leaves and obliterated nourishing corrals and water rainwater collection systems. Without a working water system and the shade gave by

pigs and NHP’s (rhesus macaques) to test which combinations of MB-003 and ZmAb are the most effective and can be used for further experiments. To test the components of MB-003 (mAbs c13C6,

This essay will evaluate the usefulness of Harry Harlow’s work in understanding human attachment. Harlow was interested in whether infants form attachments as a result of biological needs being met or whether they are predisposed to forming attachments with stimuli that have certain comforting properties; he tested this using monkeys and in later years studied maternal deprivation and abuse in monkeys. The findings from Harlow’s (1958, cited in Custance, 2012) initial experiments showed that baby

Human beings are more complex than any other creatures in the world. We need to ruminate about almost everything that we do in our lives. As a result, our stress level are much higher than any other primates. Even though we know that stress is very harmful for our body, but we simply cannot avoid the stress. In the film, Stanford University neurobiologist Dr. Sapolsky shows the hazardous effects of prolonged stress in our everyday lives. Dr. Sapolsky’s baboon study help us understand the complex

In chapter six Slater mentions to us Fout, who believes that sacrificing animals for research is morally questionable. She adds that Mason is not “sure whether the ends justify the means” (Slater 148-149). However, Morgan claims that “human life is more valuable than animal life” (Slater 150). Which I personally don’t agree it justifiable to use animals in research for many reasons, for example Slater states “Some of the cloth-mothered monkeys began to display autistic-like features, rocking and

The fight for who can proceed in experiments to find the cure for Ebola is on. In the experiments done by the lab scientists from, Therapeutic Intervention of Ebola Virus Infection in Rhesus Macaques with the MB-003 Monoclonal Antibody Cocktail persisted in a slight solution that resulted a minor success, but a success that is well needed. On the other hand, Dr. Lipstich feels that the results may not be so worth it considering that high risk of the scientists themselves catching the deadly virus

In the concentration camps of the Nazi Reich, hundreds of prisoners were tested on, in horrid medical experiments. The question of medical testing has been a heavily debated question since the start of our modern prison system. However, it seems quite obvious that even ignoring the blatant ethical issues at hand, prisoner testing is unviable at any large scale, due to the laws protecting prisoners as a vulnerable population. However, there is a point to be made about the relative cheapness of prisoners