Word: rhesus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Animal studies suggest that there may be a biological factor in maternal behavior; mothers of rhesus monkeys punish their male babies earlier and more often than their female offspring; they also touch their female babies more often and act more protective toward them...
...brain's arteries to enable doctors to follow its path through the smaller blood vessels. The tests showed most of the patients to be suffering from occlusion, or blockage, of the small arteries. To determine whether speed could cause such damage, Rumbaugh and his team injected five rhesus monkeys with methamphetamine every other day for two weeks. Then the scientists killed and autopsied the five, plus two animals that had received no drugs but had otherwise been kept under identical conditions. Neither of the drug-free monkeys showed any sign of brain damage. But all five of the others...