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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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Tetra
Born in 1999 at the Oregon primate research center now known as the Oregon National Primate Research Center, Tetra was a female rhesus macaque produced through embryo splitting. Also called artificial twinning, this method separates an early embryo into parts that can continue developing independently. It differs from somatic cell nuclear transfer, the technique associated with Dolly the sheep, wh...
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