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University of Washington Allows Primate to Starve to Death

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Department of Agriculture (USDA) report on the UW National Primate Research Center in September. The primate, a 3-and-a-half-year-old pig-tailed macaque, “had been found dead due to malnutrition resulting in a loss of 25 percent of its body weight,” the report said. The death occurred last April.

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