[frank ballenger]

Real life story in the Chronicle of Higher Education once—some grad students had to do various tasks in a research lab for the university’s grant project. As a couple of students on different work shifts went past the monkey cages the monkeys strained and reached out, slashing their upper arms.

The students came down with high fevers and weird symptoms and were in the hospital for a long time with organ damage. Grad students tried to form a union to get better safety guidelines enforced but it didn’t work out.

Not a good job to take.

[fr_freak]

As a couple of students on different work shifts went past the monkey cages the monkeys strained and reached out, slashing their upper arms.

I knew a woman who was a high level medical researcher, PhD in neurobiology or some such. She was doing research on rats, and said she would never do medical experiments on monkeys again because they were intelligent enough to know, on some level, what was being done to them. She said the hatred they had for the experimenters was obvious and the monkeys would gladly have hurt any one of them if they could.