How about pain....physical and psychological. In the Air Force saw rhesus monkeys strapped in chairs in an altitude chamber in front of a control panel. They were trained to respond to signals popping up on those panels. Do it right get a food pellet, wrong get a shock in the butt. They were dosed with Staph.enterotoxin, run to altitude …
How about pain....physical and psychological. In the Air Force saw rhesus monkeys strapped in chairs in an altitude chamber in front of a control panel. They were trained to respond to signals popping up on those panels. Do it right get a food pellet, wrong get a shock in the butt. They were dosed with Staph.enterotoxin, run to altitude and put to work. As they became sick they quickly ignored the food signal but not the pain advoidance signal. Pain advoidance is a strong motivator
They were lucky--they survived. These were experiments carried out for SAC to determine how long function remained after a debilitating event. We got them from Wright Patterson where they got this training and where in their experiments they were given a lethal dose of radiation. Suspect it was info about these kinds of studies leaking back to India that convinced them to halt shipment of rhesus here. Of course by then we had breeder colonies established.
Agree. Worked with mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits and rhesus (up to 12 lbs and that is a handful). Actually hated what we did to the critters (maybe not so much the mice...well, maybe even them too).
How about pain....physical and psychological. In the Air Force saw rhesus monkeys strapped in chairs in an altitude chamber in front of a control panel. They were trained to respond to signals popping up on those panels. Do it right get a food pellet, wrong get a shock in the butt. They were dosed with Staph.enterotoxin, run to altitude and put to work. As they became sick they quickly ignored the food signal but not the pain advoidance signal. Pain advoidance is a strong motivator
Oh how awful. Those poor animals.
Like Fauci’s beagles.
They were lucky--they survived. These were experiments carried out for SAC to determine how long function remained after a debilitating event. We got them from Wright Patterson where they got this training and where in their experiments they were given a lethal dose of radiation. Suspect it was info about these kinds of studies leaking back to India that convinced them to halt shipment of rhesus here. Of course by then we had breeder colonies established.
Humans are cruel.
Agree. Worked with mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits and rhesus (up to 12 lbs and that is a handful). Actually hated what we did to the critters (maybe not so much the mice...well, maybe even them too).