Monkeys mutilated themselves or paced and circled endlessly, trying to cope with mental anguish. Some of them pulled out their own hair until they were nearly bald.
PETA: PETA has obtained damning photos from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspections of Johns Hopkins University (JHU) laboratories revealing that monkeys are locked in cramped barren cages, apparently driven by stress and a soul-crushing lack of stimulation to tear out their own hair, and left suffering from untreated medical conditions.
The photos, taken by USDA inspectors, document violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA), which sets the minimum standards for the treatment of animals in laboratories. More importantly, each photo vividly shows that JHU warehouses monkeys and treats them like laboratory tools, rather than viewing them as intelligent, loving animals who are capable of feeling pain, anxiety, and depression and deserve to be free…
Earlier this month, in response to our public records request, PETA received documents from the Maryland Department of Agriculture stating that Johns Hopkins University (JHU) purchased 31 rhesus macaques in January 2018 from the notorious taxpayer-funded Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC). These animals went from one hellhole (WNPRC) to another (JHU), where U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors have documented repeated violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.
PETA’s six-month undercover investigation into the WNPRC revealed widespread suffering and neglect. Nearly 2,000 highly intelligent monkeys are kept at the WNPRC, and some have been driven mad by extreme, near-constant, long-term confinement—over two decades for some—deprived of the opportunity to satisfy their most basic needs…
Monkeys mutilated themselves or paced and circled endlessly, a well-known and dysfunctional method of trying to cope with mental anguish. Some of them pulled out their own hair until they were nearly bald. Many were found to have chronic diarrhea, lasting for months or even years. Cornelius, a monkey who has been at the WNPRC for a decade and was usually kept in isolation, was routinely found hunched over or with his face pressed against the cage bars. As one supervisor said, staff are “not supposed to say” that monkeys “look depressed” but admitted that they absolutely do…
The public deserves to know what takes place behind the locked doors of JHU’s laboratories, where experimenters conduct crude animal tests, often receiving taxpayer funds for them… JHU must stop using and harming animals in its laboratories, including the one headed by Shreesh Mysore, who torments barn owls in gruesome and invasive brain experiments… You can help end this suffering by calling on JHU to pull the plug on all its worthless and deadly experiments on animals. SOURCE…
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