Word: rhesus
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...shepherd. The azure blots, "drifting apart or coming together according to the sheeps' movement," make up a painting, so the catalogue declared. One conceptual artist, Jannis Kounellis, exhibited a macaw on a perch-an old work, possibly touched up with a new macaw. Another, Vettor Pisani, had a rhesus monkey tied on a short leather strap to the top of a sinister-looking mirror table...
...article on rhesus monkeys being used in radiation experiments is appalling! India has decided to ban further shipment of rhesus monkeys to the U.S. [Feb. 6], but what of the fate of animals from other sources? God gave man a wonderful gift-the ability to feel compassion. Unfortunately, science is rapidly making man into a robot, devoid of feeling...
...question is not how long it will take the U.S. to produce an adequate supply of home-grown rhesus monkeys, but how long it will take the U.S. (and the rest of the world) to legislate and enforce controls concerning the humane use of animals with nervous systems capable of registering pain...
...these purposes, the rhesus is considered preferable to other monkeys, both because its body mechanisms closely resemble those of humans and because it has been studied so extensively that new results can be measured very precisely. In the short term, therefore, many U.S. scientists are nervous about the prospective ban, and the Charles River Breeding Laboratories in Wilmington, Mass., the largest such institution in the U.S., is being inundated with telephone inquiries about future supplies. (At the moment, there are about 1,300 of the imports in the U.S.) In the long run, despite the expense of breeding rhesuses...
Biologies already has four rhesus breeding centers; the National Institutes of Health has five; the Charles River Breeding Laboratories has a colony on Key Lois in Florida and is planning another near by; Lederle has its own near Alice, Texas. The question is, how long will it take the U.S. to produce an adequate supply of home-grown rhesuses? Best estimate: five to ten years...