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Please levy the MAXIMUM FINE against Franklin & Marshall College for their
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Animal group calls for investigation of monkey death at Franklin & Marshall lab
From Dan Nephin, LancasterOnline.com, December 7, 2020
An animal welfare group has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department
Agriculture over the death of a research monkey at Franklin & Marshall
College in August.
The male capuchin monkey bled to death after being attacked by other
capuchin monkeys; staff found the dead monkey on Aug. 26 when they came to
check on the monkeys, according to a report the school filed with the
National Institute of Health's Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare shortly
afterward.
On Monday, the organization Stop Animal Exploitation NOW called for the USDA
to investigate, claiming the college may have violated two section of
federal law covering animal handling and veterinarian care. The Ohio-based
group wants the college fined the maximum of $10,000 for each of the two
possible violations.
"If this monkey's injury had been seen sooner, before blood loss was so
severe, he/she may not have died," Michael A. Budkie, SAEN's co-founder,
wrote in the complaint.
Peter Durantine, a college spokesman, said incident was reported promptly to
regulatory authorities.
"We reported the incident to regulatory authorities promptly, who reviewed
the incident and deemed that it was an unfortunate circumstance that could
not have been prevented," he said. The 17 monkeys are kept in social housing
as it is "overwhelmingly preferred for social primates as it mimics their
natural living conditions and has proven welfare benefits."
In the college's report to the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare that was
included in SAEN's complaint, faculty Dean Cameron Wesson wrote that the
monkeys were behaving normally when staff left for the evening on Aug. 25.
The school's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee "determined that
while extremely unfortunate, this social group incident was not predictable
or preventable," he wrote.
Staff has since increased observation of the monkeys, and "members of the
primary group have been interacting peacefully and affiliatively," he wrote.
Elizabeth Lonsdorf, an associate professor of psychology, runs the school's
primate lab, which has two capuchin monkey families.
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