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Yerkes Statements Regarding the Missing Monkey
June 24, 2011
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Emory University
June 24, 2011
During the last two days, there has been extensive media coverage about the missing monkey. We appreciate the media's help to notify the community, and we are grateful for all who have called with information. Unfortunately, we still have not located the animal, but we continue searching our property and following up on leads members of the community provide.
Please remember to contact the Yerkes Research Center at 404-727-7732 or Gwinnett Animal Control at 770-339-3200 if you see a monkey. We do not believe this animal poses any threat to the community, but it is wild and should not be approached. We also want to reiterate this monkey was not part of any research in which it was infected with any disease.
We are working with Emory's Institutional and Animal Care Committee and other regulatory agencies to review our actions to locate the monkey and to determine our next steps.
Again, we express our appreciation to the media and the community for your interest and help. We will continue to provide information and encourage you to call us with any questions.
June 21, 2011
During a routine, annual veterinary exam June 15 of all animals within one of the compounds at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center Field Station, personnel determined a 2-year-old, female rhesus monkey was not in its compound. This animal is one of many specially bred rhesus macaques at Yerkes that does not have the herpes B virus, something common to the species. This animal was in the process of being assigned to a behavioral research study, which is the focus of the research at the Yerkes Field Station. The animal was not part of a scientific study in which it would have been infected with any disease.
Yerkes Animal Care, Colony Management, Facility Management and Veterinary personnel immediately began a search for the monkey that covered the animal?s housing compound and surrounding areas, the clinical facility where staff performs the exams and a compound in which the monkey was previously housed, as well as the nearby areas. Yerkes personnel are continuing to search for the monkey.
Center administrators have notified Emory?s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, the National Center for Research Resources, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Gwinnett County Police.
Daily operations and research to advance science and improve health are ongoing at the Yerkes Research Center. If you see a monkey, please do not approach it. Call the Yerkes Research Center at 404-727-7732. We will work with Gwinnett County?s animal control authorities to respond appropriately.
For more information on rhesus macaques:
http://www.yerkes.emory.edu/animals/rhesus_macaque.html
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/rhesus_macaque
<HR>http://www.yerkes.emory.edu/about/news/rhesus_062311.html
June 24, 2011
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Emory University
June 24, 2011
During the last two days, there has been extensive media coverage about the missing monkey. We appreciate the media's help to notify the community, and we are grateful for all who have called with information. Unfortunately, we still have not located the animal, but we continue searching our property and following up on leads members of the community provide.
Please remember to contact the Yerkes Research Center at 404-727-7732 or Gwinnett Animal Control at 770-339-3200 if you see a monkey. We do not believe this animal poses any threat to the community, but it is wild and should not be approached. We also want to reiterate this monkey was not part of any research in which it was infected with any disease.
We are working with Emory's Institutional and Animal Care Committee and other regulatory agencies to review our actions to locate the monkey and to determine our next steps.
Again, we express our appreciation to the media and the community for your interest and help. We will continue to provide information and encourage you to call us with any questions.
June 21, 2011
During a routine, annual veterinary exam June 15 of all animals within one of the compounds at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center Field Station, personnel determined a 2-year-old, female rhesus monkey was not in its compound. This animal is one of many specially bred rhesus macaques at Yerkes that does not have the herpes B virus, something common to the species. This animal was in the process of being assigned to a behavioral research study, which is the focus of the research at the Yerkes Field Station. The animal was not part of a scientific study in which it would have been infected with any disease.
Yerkes Animal Care, Colony Management, Facility Management and Veterinary personnel immediately began a search for the monkey that covered the animal?s housing compound and surrounding areas, the clinical facility where staff performs the exams and a compound in which the monkey was previously housed, as well as the nearby areas. Yerkes personnel are continuing to search for the monkey.
Center administrators have notified Emory?s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, the National Center for Research Resources, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Gwinnett County Police.
Daily operations and research to advance science and improve health are ongoing at the Yerkes Research Center. If you see a monkey, please do not approach it. Call the Yerkes Research Center at 404-727-7732. We will work with Gwinnett County?s animal control authorities to respond appropriately.
For more information on rhesus macaques:
http://www.yerkes.emory.edu/animals/rhesus_macaque.html
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/rhesus_macaque
<HR>http://www.yerkes.emory.edu/about/news/rhesus_062311.html
