Plan to breed lab monkeys splits Puerto Rican town (AP)

By admin, 01-12-2009

FILE - In this July 29, 2008 file photo, rhesus macaque monkeys groom one another on Cayo Santiago, known as Monkey Island, off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico. The 37-acre island is a behavioral research and breeding colony for the monkeys, some of which are sold to laboratories. Puerto Rico has a long history with imported research monkeys, some of which escape, reproduce and run amok, thus some local Puerto Ricans are surprised that the local government has embraced a new plan to import thousands of primates to a different facility than the one pictured, and breed them for sale to U.S. researchers. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)AP - Puerto Rico has such a bad history with research monkeys running amok that some residents are stunned that its government has tentatively approved a plan to import and breed thousands of primates for sale to U.S. researchers.



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