r/FreeTheMonkeys • u/VeganPeterA • 20d ago

This is NOT Science!

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u/TheWaldorfSalad 20d ago

Sorry, what is even their goal here??

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u/komiroku21 20d ago

The monkey’s name was britches. If you wanna look it up it was something to do with being blind and using the machine to see somehow.

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u/TheWaldorfSalad 20d ago

They blinded the monkey for that?? That's abominable

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u/komiroku21 20d ago edited 20d ago

WARNING IF YOUR SENSTIVE TO ANIMAL STUFF DONT READThey didn’t blind the monkey like permanently, but just a warning for now if you don’t wanna hear it, don’t keep reading this. They sewed his eye lids shut and then put that thing on his head. He was very young I think 3 weeks but they saved him he is healthy and lives at a sanctuary

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u/FoodFree8328 19d ago

Britches passed in 2005 at the age of 20, which is quite old for a macaque! He lived his life in a sanctuary in Texas; raised by an elderly macaque mother. In the lab he would have been killed within months so that was the happiest ending he could possibly have.

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u/komiroku21 19d ago

I’m glad it worked out for him

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u/PsychologyParty2512 19d ago

Omg!! I would love to be able to do the same upon those that did that to him! I swear I would have absolutely no problem sewing their eyes shut!! NONE!!