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Rhesus macaque by the Agra Fort, Uttar Pradesh, India Mother and child rhesus macaque in Nepal. According to Zimmermann's first description of 1780, the rhesus macaque is distributed in eastern Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, as far east as the Brahmaputra Valley, Barak valley and in peninsular India, Nepal, and northern Pakistan.
They have close-cropped hair on their heads, which accentuates their very expressive faces. The rhesus macaques are Asian, Old World monkeys that are primarily found in Afghanistan, Pakistan ...
The center maintains a colony of 4,200 non-human primates (consisting of rhesus monkeys, Japanese macaques, vervets, baboons and cynomolgus macaques), [6] cared for by 12 veterinarians and 100 full-time technicians. [7]
The pit of despair was a name used by American comparative psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, technically called a vertical chamber apparatus, that he used in experiments on rhesus macaque monkeys at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1970s. [2] The aim of the research was to produce an animal model of depression.
A wild and unexpected scene unfolded in Beaufort County, South Carolina, as over 40 rhesus macaque monkeys made a dash for freedom from a research facility. Residents have been urged to keep their ...
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Albert I was a rhesus macaque monkey and the first mammal launched on a rocket (V-2 Rocket "Blossom No. 3") on June 18, 1948. [1] [2] The launch was staged at White Sands Proving Ground, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Albert I, a nine-pound monkey, was anesthetized and placed inside the rocket's crew capsule in the nose of the V-2 rocket. [2]
In September 2012, a rhesus macaque was inadvertently left in an unattended vehicle for approximately 22 hours. As a result, the macaque was dehydrated and later died. [10] In September 2014, a USDA inspection report revealed that several of the animal cages had been kept in unclean and unsanitary conditions. [11]