Post and Courier

SC’s Monkey Island breeding operation comes under House committee scrutiny

A key congressional committee wants federal health officials to justify the continued breeding of primates on Morgan Island, a secluded South Carolina barrier island that is home to more than 3,000 ...
Post and Courier

Monkeys may be damaging remote SC barrier island where primates run free, new analysis shows

Free-ranging monkeys may be causing long-term environmental damage on Morgan Island, an isolated barrier island the state owns and has used for decades as a primate breeding ground, according to a new ...
insider.si.edu

Breeding primates: apes, baboons, macaques, guenons, New World monkeys; general comments on breeding; research in reproduction. Editor, W. I. B. Beveridge

Held June 28-30, 1971. Sponsored by the World Health Organization, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bern, and the Research Dept., Swiss Serum and Vaccine Institute. siris_sil_30185 ...
Yahoo

South MS will be home for state’s only primate sanctuary. Here’s an inside look

According to Metzler, red flags include facilities that allow the public to have direct contact with primates, breed primates or sell primates. She says sanctuaries should have enclosures where the ...
Mongabay

Report alleges criminality in Cambodian, Vietnamese monkey trade

A new report is the latest to bolster long-standing allegations that many long-tailed macaques imported into the U.S. for biomedical research were illegally caught from the wild and falsely labeled as ...