Animal activist group raises concerns after monkeys die at UL's New Iberia site Ashley White, Lafayette Daily Advertiser An animal rights group is raising concerns after three monkeys apparently died from heatstroke at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's New Iberia Research Center. Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!, said in a news release it filed the complaint last week with the U.S. Department of Agriculture after obtaining a report outlining the monkeys' deaths that was sent from the New Iberia Research Center's director to the director of the Division of Policy and Education at the National Institutes of Health. A spokesperson for the USDA said it could not confirm receipt of the complaint.