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LIFE STORIES
These are life stories of primates held in U.S. primate laboratories. They are based on documents obtained from the labs.
YNPRC
Clint Chimpanzee
Dover Chimpanzee
Sellers Chimpanzee
Tottie Chimpanzee
3566 Rhesus Macaque
PWc2 Rhesus Macaque
Unknown Rhesus Macaque
YN70-119 Chimpanzee
YN73-125 Gorilla
YN74-17 Chimpanzee
YN74-68 Chimpanzee
YN78-109 Chimpanzee
YN79-33 Chimpanzee
YN81-124 Chimpanzee
YN86-37 Squirrel Monkey
ONPRC
13447 Rhesus Macaque
13481 Rhesus Macaque
14326 Rhesus Macaque
20213 Rhesus Macaque
20229 Rhesus Macaque D
20233 Rhesus Macaque
20247 Rhesus Macaque
20253 Rhesus Macaque
20346 Rhesus Macaque
CNPRC
18714 Crab-eating Macaque
20629 Rhesus Macaque
22114 Crab-eating Macaque
23915 Crab-eating Macaque
23954 Squirrel Monkey
23993 Squirrel Monkey
23997 Squirrel Monkey
24005 Squirrel Monkey
24013 Squirrel Monkey
24557 Crab-eating Macaque
24605 Crab-eating Macaque
24974 Rhesus Macaque
24994 Rhesus Macaque
25142 Crab-eating Macaque
25157 Crab-eating Macaque
25205 Crab-eating Macaque
25250 Crab-eating Macaque
25274 Rhesus Macaque
25281 Rhesus Macaque
25412 Crab-eating Macaque
25809 Squirrel Monkey
27276 Crab-eating Macaque
27306 Rhesus Macaque
28092 Crab-eating Macaque
28098 Crab-eating Macaque
28100 Crab-eating Macaque
28104 Crab-eating Macaque
28109 Crab-eating Macaque
28114 Crab-eating Macaque
28545 Squirrel Monkey
28562 Squirrel Monkey
28796 Crab-eating Macaque
30749 Crab-eating Macaque
30755 Crab-eating Macaque
30813 Rhesus Macaque
30914 Rhesus Macaque
30916 Rhesus Macaque
30983 Rhesus Macaque
31031 Rhesus Macaque
34273 Crab-eating Macaque
34274 Crab-eating Macaque
34275 Crab-eating Macaque
34276 Crab-eating Macaque
34278 Crab-eating Macaque
34279 Crab-eating Macaque
34280 Crab-eating Macaque
34281 Crab-eating Macaque
WNPRC
cj0233 Common Marmoset
cj0453 Common Marmoset D
cj0495 Common Marmoset
cj0506 Common Marmoset
cj1654 Common Marmoset
Piotr Rhesus Macaque
rhaf72 Rhesus Macaque
rhao45 Rhesus Macaque
Rh1890 Rhesus Macaque
R80180 Rhesus Macaque
R87083 Rhesus Macaque
R89124 Rhesus Macaque
R89163 Rhesus Macaque
R90128 Rhesus Macaque
R91040 Rhesus Macaque
R93014 Rhesus Macaque
S93052 Rhesus Macaque
R95054 Rhesus Macaque D
R95065 Rhesus Macaque D
R95076 Rhesus Macaque D
R95100 Rhesus Macaque
R96108 Rhesus Macaque
R97041 Rhesus Macaque
R97082 Rhesus Macaque
R97111 Rhesus Macaque
Response from Jordana Lenon, public relations manager for WNPRC. Citizens' requests Lenon refused to answer.
WANPRC
A03068 Rhesus Macaque
A98056 Pig-tailed Macaque
A92025 Baboon
F91396 Pig-tailed Macaque D
J90153 Pig-tailed Macaque
J90266 Pig-tailed Macaque
J90299 Crab-eating Macaque
J91076 Pig-tailed Macaque D
J91386 Pig-tailed Macaque D
J91398 Pig-tailed Macaque D
J92068 Pig-tailed Macaque
J92349 Pig-tailed Macaque D
J92476 Pig-tailed Macaque
UCLA
B15A Vervet
788E Rhesus Macaque
9382 Vervet
1984-016 Vervet
1991-016 Vervet
1992-015 Vervet
1994-014 Vervet
1994-046 Vervet
1994-087 Vervet
1995-046 Vervet
1995-101 Vervet
1996-022 Vervet
UTAH
MCY24525 Crab-eating Macaque
MCY24540 Crab-eating Macaque
OIPM-007 Crab-eating Macaque
MCY24525 Crab-eating Macaque
MCY24540 Crab-eating Macaque
UNC-Chapel Hill
3710 Squirrel Monkey
APF
Ashley Chimpanzee
Karla Chimpanzee
Tyson Chimpanzee
Snoy Chimpanzee
Maurice p1 Maurice p2 Chimpanzee
Hercules Chimpanzee
Jerome Chimpanzee
Ritchie Chimpanzee
Rex Chimpanzee
Topsey Chimpanzee
B.G. Chimpanzee
Dawn Chimpanzee
BamBam Chimpanzee
Dixie Chimpanzee
Ginger Chimpanzee
Kelly Chimpanzee
Lennie Chimpanzee
Kist Chimpanzee
Peg Chimpanzee
Aaron Chimpanzee
Chuck Chimpanzee
James Chimpanzee
Alex Chimpanzee
Muna Chimpanzee
Wally Chimpanzee
#1028 Chimpanzee
Lippy Chimpanzee
#1303 Chimpanzee
#CA0127 Chimpanzee
Shane Chimpanzee
LEMSIP
196 Baboon
The Fauna Foundation Chimpanzees
Center for Biologics Evaluation
Univ. of Alabama - Birmingham

Univ. of Minnesota

00FP8 Long-tailed Macaque
312E Rhesus Macaque
9711B Rhesus Macaque
99IP61 Long-tailed Macaque
CDC-Column E 2002

 

WWAIL 2006 Atlanta Update.

Activists in Atlanta displayed posters of celebrities who have and are suffering from various diseases that animal researchers have been working on for decades. Despite 25+ years of AIDS research, Magic Johnson has not been cured. Parkinson's still afflicts Michael J. Fox. Montel Williams suffers from MS with no apparent help in sight. Emory's Larry Bryd addicted monkeys to cocaine for 30 years but that has not helped Robert Downey, Jr. In the last two years we have lost Chris and Dana Reeve and a wonderful friend and animal advocate, Richard Pryor.

Both Richard Pryor and wife Jennifer Lee Pryor have tried to educate the public about vivisection and that it is not helping sick people. Unfortunately, Richard lost his battle with MS last year but Jennifer continues to work on the animals' behalf. Jennifer prepared a statement to be read for our event this year and we would like to share her (and Richard's) thoughts with you. We thank her for this contribution and for all the work she has done on their behalf. Jennifer and Richard have been good friends to all animals.

We are no different than the animals we see and with whom we share our lives. Animals feel physical pain just as we do. Animals feel emotional pain just as we do. So, why then, is it morally acceptable to torture an animal in the name of "science?" If one really sits back and ponders this question, there can be no rational belief for the justification of the torture and killing of another species to benefit of another.
Richard knew that animals don't get MS and creating symptoms to mimic this disease or any other doesn't get you any closer to the question of 'what causes the disease."
As Richard stated, a few years after being diagnosed, "MAKING ANIMALS LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE A DISEASE THEY NEVER GET, IS LIKE MAKING ME LOOK WHITE...IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. IT'S JUST F******* STUPID!"
We differ from species to species. If the money and focus were on prevention...maybe we would be further down this road. It is a system of obsolescence.
If anything, non-human animals cannot understand what is happening to them, thus, they feel even more emotionally distraught. They cannot see an end to the pain; they cannot understand why people they once trusted are now hurting them. There is no ethical dilemma. It is both scientifically ineffective and morally reprehensible. The archaic ideology and logic used to justify animal experimentation is reminiscent of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, wherein the government lied to the underprivileged African American community in order to obtain fraudulent consent to testing which ultimately caused major harm as well as death. Animals cannot give consent. If they could vocalize their wishes, they certainly would never consent to being trapped in a cage to endure painful experiments day after day, without any physical contact or the ability to carry out their own instinctual behaviors, only to be killed at the end. The fact of the matter is, suffering is suffering; whether human, canine, or bovine, when you get stabbed, it hurts, in the heart or elsewhere, and that's just simply, profoundly wrong.
In conclusion, to quote Alice Walker:
"The same way, blacks weren't made for whites, women made for man, nor were animals made for people"


Jennifer Lee Pryor
Indigo, Inc.
www.RichardPryor.com


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