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Monday, June 7, 2021

UW-Madison College of Letters and Science "Macaque Enrichment" Doc.

Of the 4 documents I recieved form the university on May 10, 2021, after 142 days of waiting, the College of Letters and Science was, in a way, the oddest.

These redactions are odd and questionable. The use of macaques at the School of Letters and Science generally takes place at the Harlow lab, just across an alley form the Primate Center. Why redact that location? Maybe if crazy animal rights fanatics learned that monkeys are being experimented on in the building that used to house and is named after Harry Harlow, they would go crazy? Who doesn't know that the Harlow lab experiments on monkeys? And why is the title of something staff are required to read hidden? Strange indeed. Or just silly and/or dumb.

It's doubly weird and silly because anyone can google "Harlow lab" and immediately see a picture of it and the address and phone number. And if you go to their webpage, you see immediately that the Director is (still) Chris Coe.

Whatever, here's the document:
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES
SOP #325 DATE ISSUED: April 13, 2018
TITLE: Macaque Enrichment

There is no mention of what to do when a monkey starts exhibiting signs of mental illness. Maybe that's in yet another document. We'll see.

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