For Murphy, long days in isolation are the least of his concerns. He'll languish alone in a steel prison cell until a laboratory worker pulls him out and delivers him to the experimenter, who will cut open his skull and inject toxins or vacuum out or burn parts of his brain. Then he'll be confined to a small black box—a "fear cage"—so the experimenter can deliberately provoke his worst fears.
For monkeys like Murphy, Odd Job, Rudisha, and many others, the misery that they endure in cruel taxpayer-funded experiments will end only when they're killed and their broken bodies are discarded like medical waste.
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PETA has obtained never-before-seen footage of the monstrous tests conducted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimenter Elisabeth Murray—revealing that after she inflicts permanent, traumatic damage on their brains, monkeys are confined alone to a small dark box so she can terrify them with realistic-looking snakes and spiders.
The torture is repeated over and over—and when Murray has finally finished frightening them, some monkeys are "recycled" into other experiments for even more abuse before they're ultimately deemed "extraneous" and killed.
After 30 years, not one treatment or cure for human neuropsychiatric disorders has come out of Murray's laboratory of horrors. Yet in the past 13 years alone, she's raked in a whopping $36 million in taxpayer funds to keep tormenting monkeys.
PETA has an unparalleled track record of effective campaigns for primates in laboratories:
It was our hard-hitting campaign that finally put an end to dreadful maternal-deprivation experiments at NIH, in which infant monkeys were torn away from their mothers at birth and terrorized with loud sounds and artificial snakes, addicted to alcohol, and isolated in cramped cages in order to worsen their distress.
Our six-month undercover investigation of the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center—revealing that monkeys there paced and mutilated themselves in distress, sustained injuries in fights with severely stressed cagemates, suffered from diarrhea for two decades, or were denied even the smallest comforts after being prematurely separated from their mothers—has led two federal agencies to begin investigations of the facility and is helping PETA build pressure to shut down all government-funded monkey torture.
We recently secured a ruling that forced Oregon Health & Science University to hand over 74 videos recorded at the Oregon National Primate Research Center, showing the public vile experiments in which mother monkeys are fed "junk food" diets and then their babies are taken from them to be intentionally terrified.
We're determined to win for the monkeys trapped in Murray's laboratory and in other primate prisons and to create a future without animal laboratories. To do that, we need you with us.
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