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Drunken Monkeys and Cruel Humans

Drunken Monkeys and Cruel Humans ATLA 28, 639–640, 2000 639 Editorial Early in September, the customary air traffic control delay meant that I finished the work I had intended to do on the flight from Milan to Birmingham much earlier than I had expected, so I turned to High Life, the British Airways in-flight magazine, as a means of passing the time. I was angered and saddened to see an article entitled Drunken Monkeys, which described how, in order to “establish a link between alcohol abuse and stress”, the US National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism had “monitored the drinking habits of 97 macaque monkeys”. But, “to give them a reason to reach for the bottle, they took a sample group away from their mothers for the first six months of their life”. Then, when they reached the age of three, the monkeys “were offered all the alcohol they wanted”. British Airways went on to inform their passengers through the magazine article that “the heaviest drinkers were those monkeys who had been taken away from their mothers and had shown unusually high levels of stress hormone cortisol (sic) during their youth”, and that “researchers now suggest that this stress factor provides the best http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Alternatives to Laboratory Animals SAGE

Drunken Monkeys and Cruel Humans

Balls, Michael
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals , Volume 28 (5): 2 – Sep 1, 2000
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© 2000 Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
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0261-1929
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2632-3559
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10.1177/026119290002800503
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ATLA 28, 639–640, 2000 639 Editorial Early in September, the customary air traffic control delay meant that I finished the work I had intended to do on the flight from Milan to Birmingham much earlier than I had expected, so I turned to High Life, the British Airways in-flight magazine, as a means of passing the time. I was angered and saddened to see an article entitled Drunken Monkeys, which described how, in order to “establish a link between alcohol abuse and stress”, the US National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism had “monitored the drinking habits of 97 macaque monkeys”. But, “to give them a reason to reach for the bottle, they took a sample group away from their mothers for the first six months of their life”. Then, when they reached the age of three, the monkeys “were offered all the alcohol they wanted”. British Airways went on to inform their passengers through the magazine article that “the heaviest drinkers were those monkeys who had been taken away from their mothers and had shown unusually high levels of stress hormone cortisol (sic) during their youth”, and that “researchers now suggest that this stress factor provides the best

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