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Loon
Loon was a male drill kept at the San Diego Zoo. Born at the Philadelphia Zoo in 1979 and transferred to San Diego in 1982, he developed diabetes and was trained through operant conditioning to present his arm for regular blood sampling and insulin injections. Preserved tissue from Loon was later involved in research producing induced pluripotent stem cells from an endangered primate, linking his...
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Britches
Britches was a stump-tailed macaque monkey used in sensory deprivation experiments at the University of California, Riverside. In April 1985, the Animal Liberation Front removed Britches and approximately 700 other animals from the facility. At the time of the raid, Britches had his eyelids surgically sutured shut and wore a helmet device as part of a study on visual deprivation and development in...
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