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RESPONSE FROM CRPRC #23954 RHESUS MACAQUE Pancho After numerous letters to the California Regional Primate Research Center, one Tag wearer finally received information about the primate on her tag. This document was over 30 pages long and included daily data entry, name of studies monkey was used for, demographic activity, acquisition records, specific protocols, and health records. Pancho was received on March 9, 1988 -- wild caught. During those eleven years, Pancho was used in a number of different studies, one was "to find the effect of female presence on male dyadic relationships". (Yes, this is cutting edge science.) While at the Davis center, he suffered a maxillary canine fracture, head trauma from a cagemate, where his eyes were swollen shut and his face was swollen for over a week, tail trauma, serious enough for hospitalization, and by the end of his time at the CRPRC, was lame. Pancho was tatooed twice, had blood taken from his femoral artery 67 times, and was injected with ketamine (an immobilizer) 45 times. This delicate being weighed less than two pounds. Pancho was captured wild, which means that he was taken from his mother and once knew the freedom and joy of life in the wild; he was boxed and shipped to California for eleven years of hell. And then he was boxed, reported in "excellent health", and shipped to an unknown location.
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