A MONKEY PARADISE
Santiago, a tiny island two miles off the port of San Juan, Puerto Rico, serves as a “ monkey paradise” for a dozen simians that recently were shipped from New York under the care of Felix Lamela, of the Columbia University School of Tropical Medicine. Valued at approximately £2OOO, the group included eight gibbons, two nocturnal loris, and two Capuchin monkeys, who will live on the uninhabited island and breed a pure strain of descendants for scientific experiments and medical research. Scientists will visit the island once a week to check on the monkeys’ behaviour and test their reactions to pneumonia and other disease germs. A number of years ago 1500 fruit trees were planted on Santiago to provide a source of food for the monkeys.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23436, 26 February 1938, Page 3
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128A MONKEY PARADISE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23436, 26 February 1938, Page 3
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