32 primates dead in Sparks

Terrible: On May 28th, thirty two nonhuman primates died in a "heating accident" in Sparks (the city next to Reno), and the only news coverage so far is a blog post more than two months after the fact. As far as I am concerned, this should have been a major news story on May 29th.


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Interesting (very interesting, I think) that this is an issue to take up with the department of agriculture.

Jesse | Thu, 08/07/2008 - 2:18pm

Wow. It's crazy that no one even knows what species they were.

mattbucher | Thu, 08/07/2008 - 2:27pm

They apparently were macaques (specifically Cynomolgus monkeys). Some more details.

ludditerobot | Thu, 08/07/2008 - 4:44pm

Bastards.

Slater | Thu, 08/07/2008 - 9:26pm

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