Inside the Monkey House

december 3, 2002  12:19 pm
Inside the Monkey House
Seattle is home to 800 nonhuman primates, but the University of Washington won't let anyone see them. Seattle Weekly's Philip Dawdy reveals why, in the cold war over animal rights, the University of Washington's primate research program is a major target. Activists are outraged over the treatment of these intelligent animals, one-third of whom die from the experimentation. Researchers say without such research medicine could not advance.