Des singes "de labo" tranférés dans un zoo

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27 singes du laboratoire de l'Université d'Uppsala (Suède) ont été transférés dans un zoo, après que l'Université ait décidé de mettre un terme à ses expériences sur les primates.

L'université avait été signalée en 2001 pour cruauté envers des animaux, pour avoir laisser des singes mourrir de faim.



Monkeys retired from Swedish lab

27 monkeys from Uppsala University's vivisection laboratory have been transferred to a zoo in the south of Sweden where they will live out their remaining lives.

The decision to move and retire the monkeys comes after a decision to close down the monkey laboratory due to the high cost of keeping the monkeys in relation to the fact that so few researchers were using them as part of research projects

11 of the monkeys are rhesus monkeys, all females between the ages of 18-24 years old. The University of Uppsala were reported for animal cruelty in 2001 when it was discovered that several monkeys had starved to death or been so poorly fed that they had developed cancer.

Now that Uppsala University have closed their primate laboratory, there is only one laboratory in Sweden that experiments on primates. The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) presently has around 60 monkeys. Earlier this year it was reported that 3 monkeys had died for reasons not connected to the experiments that were being conducted on them. Two monkeys had wounds that would not heal after fighting each other and were subsequently killed by SMI and one monkey strangled himself in a chain in his cage. SMI claim it was an accident.


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