Dear Editor: Recently in the Cap Times, Amy M. Kerwin wrote that â??monkeys deserve more than living in a small cage their entire lives.â? I could not agree more, having visited the UW monkey colony several years ago and having come to the same conclusion.
The monkeys I saw seemed very sad, listless and probably crazy. These animals are normally social and active, yet at the UW thousands are kept isolated in small, plain cages for their entire lives as the subjects of research.