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Harvard primate center cited for monkey death

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 02, 2012

The death in February of a dehydrated cotton-top tamarin monkey at a Harvard Medical School primate research facility has been reviewed by a federal inspector, and found to be a direct violation of animal welfare regulations. The report of the March 7 inspection, recently made available online, is the seventh incident cited by the US Department of Agriculture to have directly endangered the safety or welfare of a monkey at the New England Primate Research Center since June 2010.

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