MADISON, Wis. â?? Federal regulators are reviewing a complaint by a watchdog group accusing University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists of mistreating primates who died after experimentation.
Necropsy reports obtained by Stop Animal Exploitation Now show a 4-year-old macaque monkey that died in 2005 had an unspecified foreign object lodged in its intestinal tract.
A 14-year-old female rhesus monkey also died that year after a tube inserted for a surgery severely injured the monkeyâ??s throat, reports show. Another female rhesus died of a bacterial infection after giving birth.