Campus Connection: Blog reports most Vilas Zoo monkeys now dead

More than half of the monkeys shipped by UW-Madison from the Vilas Zoo to the Wild Animal Orphanage in San Antonio back in 1998 appear to be dead, Rick Bogle writes in his Primate Freedom blog. Bogle, the co-director of the Madison-based Alliance for Animals, wrote last week that the “United States Department of Agriculture is scrambling to find homes for approximately 204 primates and an additional 114 other large animals after years of serious violations of the US Animal Welfare Act including inadequate and improper food. Twenty-two of those monkeys are the survivors of the large colony sent there by the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1998.”