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...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...
From the NASA base at Wallops Island, Va., a Little Joe rocket (a cluster of eight solid-fuel rockets) took off with a full-scale astronaut capsule perched on nose. No man was inside it, only a rhesus monkey named Sam and a collection of meal worms, bacteria, molds and other biological samples. Strapped to a kind of cocoon lined with plastic foam sat Sam the monkey, riding in astronaut's "chair." Sam and cocoon were enclosed in an inner, air-conditioned " logical package," thick with straps, wi and instruments to test Sam's reactions...
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Psychologists at the University of Wisconsin prove that they can measure Mother Love -provided one of the lovers is a baby rhesus monkey and the "mother" (any object at all) is soft and cuddly...
Question of Birth. For months, the Army had painstakingly trained ten rhesus monkeys in button pushing. Early in May, the State Department learned that all ten were born .in India. State was shocked. Didn't the Army know that the rhesus is sacred in Mother India...
...frantic search began for native-born monkeys. Nobody had kept close tabs on individual birthplaces. At last, Army agents found in Madison, Wis. four rhesus monkeys guaranteed (well, almost guaranteed) to have been born in the Independence (Kans.) zoo. While being flown to Fort Knox, they escaped in a way-station airport and were at large for some time. When they finally arrived at Cape Canaveral on May 14, they were put into intensive training courses. But the two weeks before blastoff were not enough. Result: the button-pressing experiment had to be abandoned simply because Able did not have...