I want to know about this horrifying animal testing case?

Nature Lover asked:


I heard that there was a case in horrible animal testing where There was one study where they took a baby monkey from his mother, and sewed his eyes shut, and then stuck a sonar device on his head that constantly let out a high pitched shreik, day and night nonstop.

Is this true? when did it happen? i saw some photos…SICK.
by the way … what is a sonar device? what does it do?

and probably, what was the reason to do it?!

thanks if u can answer some of these x

Tyler

Tags: Animal Testing, Reason, Sonar Device

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2 Responses to “I want to know about this horrifying animal testing case?”

1. Soapyguy Says:
   February 7th, 2009 at 11:40 pm

   One of the cases of alleged abuse involved Britches, a macaque monkey born in 1985 at the University of California, Riverside, removed from its mother at birth, and left alone with its eyelids sewn shut, and a sonar sensor on its head, as part of an experiment to test sensory substitution devices for blind people. 260 animals, including Britches, were stolen from the laboratories at the University of California, Riverside in a raid by the Animal Liberation Front The university alleged that damage to the monkey’s eyelids, caused by the sutures according to the ALF, had in fact been caused by an ALF veterinarian, and that the sonar device had been removed and re-attached by the activists. The ALF reported that Britches was later transferred to a sanctuary in Mexico. University officials reported that hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage was done by the theft, and by smashing laboratory equipment, and years of medical research were lost.

   Sonar is sound ranging like bats and dolphins use for echolocation.

2. tigerlilybumbleroot Says:
   February 8th, 2009 at 6:13 am

   I think atrocious things are done to animals

   I also think that some animal rights organizations are maybe not quite honest too. I think there is propaganda on both sides of the issue (like pretty much everything else)

   That doesn’t mean that I don’t support animal rights issues. If you see something that you think is too heinous to be true, do a little research, you might find out it’s not true, or that it is….