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n. (rhesus monkey English)
Usage examples of "rhesus monkeys".
The hidden bicycle thief and I engaged in a brief tug of war, which I handily won, suggesting that I was pitted against one or two rhesus monkeys and not against the much larger troop leader.
They were rhesus monkeys, the species most often used in medical research, and all were at the upper end of the size range for their kind, more than two feet tall, twenty-five or even thirty pounds of bone and muscle.
He had no choice, so he told Vince Lucas about the mice and rhesus monkeys in detail.
Similar studies on rhesus monkeys, but using visual rather than auditory stimuli, seem to show no evidence of a difference between the hemispheres of the neocortex.
The article suggested that the human researchers' attempts at randomness displayed a subconscious choice pattern picked up by the monkeys, and noted that the rhesus monkeys had a strong affinity for pattern recognition.
He looked over the SN article, which, in very careful terms noted a variance in the ability of rhesus monkeys to pick symbols shown on a computer screen when the symbols were chosen by a human researcher compared to random assignment of the symbols by the computer.
At the time of Felix's death, the farm inventory listed one male African lion, three cougars, a gelded Cape buffalo, two Kodiak bears, ninety-seven parrots and macaws, eight Nile crocodiles, forty-two turtles, seven hundred assorted lizards, ninety-three snakes (venomous and nonvenomous) and eighty-eight rhesus monkeys.
He could show her the mercy he would have liked to have shown rhesus monkeys.
It was known that monkeys in general and Rhesus monkeys in particular could often behave like human beings to an amazing degree.
Heath had concluded that Rhesus monkeys, smoking the equivalent of only 30 joints a day, began to atrophy and die after 90 days.
Carpenter, who transported a colony of 350 rhesus monkeys from India to an island off Puerto Rico, to study them in a restricted environment.
In the sleep-freeze compartment directly behind him were the double-checks - two pairs of rhesus monkeys and ten pairs of white mice.
D-ship pilots contended they'd seeded more planets with rhesus monkeys and white mice than they had with humans.
In March, 1978, the Indian government banned the export of rhesus monkeys to research laboratories around the world.