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Congress asked to investigate the mass euthanasia of NASA's 27 lab monkeys "The animals were suffering the ethological deprivations and frustrations inherent in laboratory life," animal ethics expert John Gluck said. December 24, 2020 08:52 GMT A member of Congress has called for an investigation into why all of NASA's 27 space monkeys were put to their deaths last year instead of being sent to a sanctuary to retire. NASA's Ames research centre euthanised all the primates in one day on February 2, 2019 due to their age and health conditions. US Representative Kathleen Rice said she has been p...

All the primates at Ames Research Center were put down on February 2, 2019 They had been overseen by a drug research company renting space there The monkeys were older, and most had Parkinson's disease, the company said The choice was made to 'humanely euthanize' them to avoid 'a poor quality of life'  NASA maintains it 'does not have any non-human primates' in its facilities

updated: Dec 23 2020, 14:52 ist Nasa put down 26 monkeys in its research center in one day last year instead of transferring them to a sanctuary, according to documents reviewed by The Guardian, a move which has left animal rights activists across the globe seething. As per documents released under the freedom of information laws, 27 primates held by Nasa were euthanised on February 2, 2019, at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. The document states that the monkeys were old and 21 of them suffered from Parkinson’s disease. US House Representative Kathleen Rice wrote to ...