Dear Friend,

PETA's breaking undercover investigation into the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC)—which keeps nearly 2,000 monkeys in barren steel cages and bleak windowless rooms—found that highly intelligent animals were being neglected, driven mad by extreme long-term confinement, and attacked by their stressed cagemates.

A baby monkey named Cocoa sustained deep, painful cuts to her face after being attacked by a severely stressed adult macaque. A monkey called Ellie lost part of an ear to a fight with her cagemate, while another monkey mutilated his own leg.

Another monkey, Cornelius, had simply given up hope. He sat constantly hunched over or with his face pressed against the cage bars, having lost his will to live. When PETA's investigator offered to provide him with simple enrichment to brighten his dreary days, a supervisor said not to expect other workers to do the same.

PETA's investigator found that these profoundly intelligent animals were confined every day and every night, in barren steel cages, for years or even decades. This constant captivity caused them extreme psychological distress, leading them to spin in circles, rock back and forth, and pull out their own hair.

You can make a tremendous difference today for the monkeys imprisoned at WNPRC. Please, take a moment today to urge the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the National Institutes of Health to stop using taxpayer money to lock up and fund cruel tests on primates and to shut down WNPRC. 

Thank you for your compassion for animals and for your willingness to take action.

Sincerely,

Kathy Guillermo
Senior Vice President
PETA