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To: El Gato
A laboratory type breed would be nice. As it is, non human primate studies are difficult because they do not do too well in captivity, and are extremely strong, disease ridden and violence prone. Think a little Hannible Lecter with AIDS.
34 posted on 03/03/2010 9:10:11 PM PST by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: allmendream
A laboratory type breed would be nice. As it is, non human primate studies are difficult because they do not do too well in captivity, and are extremely strong, disease ridden and violence prone.

I was thinking of the smaller primates, like tamarins, lemurs, marmosets, etc. Nothing even as large as a gibbon. You'd use the larger, and more closely related, species for the final testing, if required.

The 'sister' organization to the one I work for has successfully maintained a large number of primates, including; Baboons, Chimpanzees, Macaques, Marmosets and Tamarins.

Here are some of the big nasty Hannibal, Lector types

And here are some of the ones I was thinking of.


38 posted on 03/03/2010 11:02:43 PM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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