Trial 1: The experiment relies on one of the most predictable traits of rhesus monkeys: their tendency to steal food at every opportunity. Santos discovered this a few years ago when she and her ...

South Carolina’s Morgan Island, also known as Monkey Island, has the largest rhesus monkey colony in the US. It was also ...

The animal's cooperation during blood collection guarantees that the results of the experiment will not be unnecessarily confounded by distress reactions (no significant cortisol response during this ...

For years, Florida Tech's Catherine Talbot, an assistant professor of psychology, has worked to understand the sociality of ...

Scientists from the Sensorimotor Research Group at the DPZ investigated this problem of visual uncertainty during movement control in their study with rhesus monkeys. In the experiment ...

212). Gisler, Benson, and Young (1960) warned that "the rhesus monkey is extremely nervous and energetic and is difficult to house. Unquestionably, animals involved in experiments should be housed in ...

For the experiment, Geisbert and his colleagues ... Researchers infected two types of monkeys, rhesus and cynomolgus macaques ...

Starting in 1957, Harlow worked with rhesus monkeys, which are more mature at birth than humans, but like human babies show a range of emotions and need to be nursed. He took infant monkeys away ...

Yet, these two experiments have something in common ... Mitalipov's ultimate goal is to clone a living rhesus monkey, and produce copies of the clone with genes removed or "knocked out ...

Monkey Island, owned by South Carolina DNR , is home to rhesus monkeys who have lived free to roam the island for decades, ...