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In 2014, 26 animals escaped from an Alpha Genesis enclosure (but did not leave the facility), prompting a fine of over $12,000 from the Department of Agriculture. [4] In 2015, an inspection report wrote that one cynomologus macaque monkey's cage had been closed with a clip instead of a lock. [3]
A plan to build a massive monkey-breeding facility that could eventually house 30,000 long-tailed macaques in a small Georgia city has sparked a multipronged legal battle pitting residents against ...
Monkey breeding is the practice of mating monkeys in captivity with the intent to maintain or produce young. Monkeys reproduce without human interference, so their offsprings' characteristics are determined by natural selection .
American importers pivoted quickly to monkey breeders in Cambodia, which supplied the U.S. with 60% of those brought into the country between 2020-2022. But for more than a year, the U.S ...
Alpha Genesis maintains a colony of 3,500 monkeys on Morgan Island, in South Carolina — which has since been called Monkey Island — where it breeds monkeys for research purposes.
Fortrea primate-testing lab, Vienna, Virginia, 2004–05. Most of the NHPs used are one of three species of macaques, accounting for 79% of all primates used in research in the UK, and 63% of all federally funded research grants for projects using primates in the U.S. [25] Lesser numbers of marmosets, tamarins, spider monkeys, owl monkeys, vervet monkeys, squirrel monkeys, and baboons are used ...
In this Friday, Nov. 10, 2017 photo, a rhesus macaques monkey observes kayakers as they navigate along the Silver River in Silver Springs, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
The Moor macaque (Macaca maura) is a macaque monkey with brown/black body fur with a pale rump patch and pink bare skin on the rump. It has ischial callosities , which are oval-shaped. [ 3 ] It is about 50–58.5 cm long, and eats figs , bamboo seeds, buds, sprouts, invertebrates and cereals in tropical rainforests .