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[–] Le_Squish ago  (edited ago)

When I was an anthropology student, they taught us that the primary driving force behind primate extinction is medical experimentation, not bush meat and not habitat lost.

You guys think we are just going from rat to human trials? Nope, it's rat, squirrel monkey, macaque then chimpanzee or gorilla. They live 20-30 years easily and you can give a chronic disease and watch the progression. We learned years ago that their immune systems are too different and they aren't ideal for vaccine manufacture but the trade continues.