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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

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.

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Shelley's avatar

Humans are cruel.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

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).

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