In November, news outlets worldwide covered the story of 43 monkeys escaping from a South Carolina nonhuman primate facility.

But Westergaard's company has come under scrutiny from a federal lawmaker who criticized the lab for negligence and alleged the laboratory has performed harmful experiments on monkeys for years.

Dr Julia Baines, science policy adviser for animal campaign group, PETA UK said: "PETA calls shame on the Ministry of Defence for conducting archaic and appallingly cruel experiments on monkeys ...

Kawai's first experiment demonstrated that monkeys exhibited an immediate response to images of snakes but not to images of salamanders, implying a specific fear of snakes. On the basis of this ...

Swell. A few years ago we were promised experiments that would effect the brain would never be done in mice. They were right. It was done in monkeys! My friend, the bioethicist William Hurlbut has ...

"We condemn the experiments in the strongest terms." Reacting to the NYT report about the monkey experiments, VW tweeted on Saturday that it "explicitly distances itself clearly from all forms of ...

New experiments on animals from fish to monkey show that the differences are qualitative It has been assumed that the intelligence of animals on various rungs of the evolutionary ladder differs ...

The number of experiments has been broadly static for ... a 'greying population', it is said we will need a steady supply of monkeys on which to test the safety and effectiveness of the next ...