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Monkey Business as Usual. From Yale Medical School to Chicago went a young Spanish physiologist to tell of what he has learned from monkeys. Dr. José M. Rodrigues Delgado has drilled holes in the skulls of anesthetized rhesus monkeys, jabbed fine electrodes (1/200 of an inch in diameter) deep into their brains, and carried connecting wires out to a tiny socket of the type used in midget radios. The sockets are attached at the back of the animal's head. The monkeys recover quickly from the operation, appear to feel no discomfort, and go about their monkey business...
Applied to most parts of the brain, electric stimulation has no effect on the monkey's emotions, but the hippocampal region (midway between the ears) is an exception. An electric tickle there turned a ferocious rhesus into a macaque Milquetoast; he even let Dr. Delgado take the liberty of stroking his face. The moment the current was turned off, he tried to bite...
Aside from keeping and breeding the usual small animals--hamsters, rats, mice--this Animal Farm has successfully bred monkeys. It now possesses a baby Java and a baby rhesus. Both varieties of monkeys are used in a study of the endocrine factors in tooth decay...
...Rhesus monkeys, imported directly from India, make up much of this Animal Farm's present population. A number of them have been innoculated with polio as part of a current research study. Others have been given mumps and measles...
...G.I.s on Buna Beach; Evita Perón getting her last primps before a party, while her famous husband stands by in gold braid, cooling his heels. "Humor," says Steichen, "is one of the rarest elements to be found in photography," but he finds some here-in a misanthropic rhesus monkey, squatting armpit-deep in water; in the earnestness of a Sigma Chi inaugural dinner; in a blasé dog star of television...