On May 28, 1959, two monkeys named Able and Baker became the first monkeys to go to space and make it back alive. Miss Able was a rhesus monkey from Kansas, and her crewmate Miss Baker was a squirrel ...
This week, Russia is expected to launch its Bion-M No.2 biosatellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying 75 mice and 1,500 fruit flies. Laika's cramped, stressful conditions and ...
Charles River Laboratories, based in Wilmington, has facilities in Shrewsbury and Worcester. PETA maintains that the company knowingly purchased more than 1,000 monkeys that had been taken from the ...