Document Type
White Paper
Abstract
If representative of other facilities, our findings uncover serious welfare concerns for the wellbeing of primates kept in American research facilities. These animals face regular or chronic sources of pain and distress including noxious experimental and non‐experimental events and illness and injury; and severe and prolonged social disruptions. Pain relief is meager by comparison to that normally provided to humans, despite legislative requirements to minimize pain and distress and assume similarity to humans in terms of ability to experience pain and distress. Living environments are usually confinement indoors to a metal cage, often alone, and often with a minimum of physical or mental stimulation.
Recommended Citation
Balcombe, Jonathan, "A Longitudinal View of Primate Life in Two American Laboratories" (2014). Experimentation Collection. 5.
https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/acwp_arte/5
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