Word: rhesus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goats undergo the surgeon's knife for nerve-grafting experiments. Pigtailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, marmosets and rhesus monkeys figure in cancer and behavioral studies. Horses and sheep provide blood for scientists anxious to study rabies and staphylococcal infections. Rice rats, Mongolian gerbils and Egyptian spiny mice are used in nutrition studies; some mice are inbred for as many as 99 generations so that researchers can study the mechanisms involved in tissue transplants. Venus clams by the dozen sacrifice their hearts to the study of the chemistry of the nervous and muscular systems...
...European lynx and the Australian dingo are usually among the least tractable animals when captured and put behind bars. Equally ready to use fang and claw are baboons, and the rhesus monkeys on which so much medical research depends. But in the San Diego Zoo, a lynx that had bloodied its nose in a savage dash against the side of its cage was treated with a new tranquilizing drug mixed in its food, and was soon gamboling like an alley kitten. An attendant put his fingers through the wire of a tranquilized dingo's cage...