MEET THE VICTIMS: Chaplin, Lloyd, Hightop ; What exactly are they doing in that lab?
Recently, PETA has discovered information about only a few of the monkey's trapped in Elisabeth Murray's lab, via federal records. As we know, Murray's experiments on these defenseless animals (payed for with U.S taxpayers dollars; more than $50M) are ridiculously unnecessary. Read to find out more about the animals your money is being fooled towards killing:
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Chaplin (April 5, 2011–December 18, 2020)
Chaplin—born more than a century after Charlie Chaplin, his silent-film star namesake—arrived at Murray’s laboratory when he was just shy of 3 years old, already suffering from hair loss on his legs. He spent more than 16 years in Murray’s lab, all of it in solitary confinement.
A couple of months after Chaplin arrived at Murray’s lab, a titanium pole, called a headpost, was surgically implanted in his skull. But Murray and her staff couldn’t get this mutilation right—they left it implanted incorrectly for eight months before removing it. A month later, it was replaced. This second one was removed and a third one implanted six months later. Chaplin suffered from bacterial infections around the headpost a couple of times and bruising around the incision on his head as well as on his face and the back of his neck.
Experimenters killed Chaplin in December 2020, with a headpost still attached to his skull.
Chaplin suffered from hair loss on approximately 73% of his body—a sign of extreme stress. At various times during his last 20 months of life, he lost hair over 81% to 100% of his body.
He was found slumped and lethargic in his cage, watery feces coating the cage walls and floor. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, and he was euthanized the next day.
Other monkeys used in Murray’s absurd animated shapes experiment—Lloyd, Hightop, Skyline, Spitler, and Chaney—endured similarly reprehensible treatments. Here are some examples:
Lloyd
During his first surgery to implant a headpost, Lloyd vomited green bile. Staff cleaned his mouth and continued with the surgery. Understandably, he never got used to a metal pole protruding from his head and would scratch at it. He would have surgery four more times to close wounds or repair stitches.
Lloyd once bit his lower lip and scratched his nose while in a restraint chair. The next day, staff noticed that he was missing a tooth and the area was bloody. He was given ibuprofen. Later that afternoon, his canine tooth was found in the room.
Hightop
Staff deemed Hightop’s birthdate unimportant, according to the documentation, which notes it only as “N/A.” He lived in solitary confinement from 2011 until his death eight years later, on December 4, 2019. Records indicate he was sedated seven times for various procedures, including headpost surgery and tooth extraction. He had a vasectomy in November 2004 and, curiously, a “vasectomy re-do” 14 months later. He suffered from hair loss on 73% of his body.
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These monkeys are being tortured as well as being withheld from water, being fed drywall-like biscuits, and being neglected from the love and care they deserve. This has caused many emotional problems as well as physical, some of the medical problems these monkeys have encountered are:
-Dehydration
-Weight loss, sometimes extreme
-Numerous incidents in which monkeys refused to eat the dry, drywall-like biscuits they were given to eat, sometimes for days on end
-Numerous incidents in which monkeys vomited in cages
-Numerous notations of dry and/or infrequent stools
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