Word: hunted
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SOUTHBORO--Dr. Ronald D. Hunt, director of Harvard's New England Primate Center, smiles as his visitors confess to missing a turn on the tortuous back roads of Southboro--a New England town just over a half-hour's drive from Boston. Secluded in Harvard's 140 acres of forest, behind a sign advertising the Harvard Southboro Campus, the primate center is easy to pass. While drop-in visitors are not welcome, the Center is at times willing to give tours of the facilities...
Public relations are important to Hunt these days. Although Harvard's New England Primate center is physically isolated from the Cambridge controversy over laboratory animal care, Hunt says that he is aware of the movements to regulate animal research further...
...Hunt says that the center strives to provide the best care possible for its captive subjects...
Researchers study monkeys not only to compare them to humans, but also to learn how to keep captive primates healthy--particularly endangered animals which are losing their habitat, Hunt says...
Part of that includes raising most of the primates in groups, rather than in separate cages, to "socialize" them. If the monkeys do not meet other members of their species, Hunt says, "They haven't learned that they're monkeys--if you put the male and the female together, they don't know what...