Article: RIGHTS GROUP CRITICIZES UW LAB GROUP'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SAYS MONKEYS ARE HIGHLY STRESSED, BUT THE LAB'S DIRECTOR DISAGREES.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)

Byline: Ron Seely Wisconsin State Journal

A national animal rights group has released a report critical of the treatment of primates at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center here.

The release of the report coincides with the annual meeting in Madison this week of the American Association of Primatologists, which started Tuesday and runs through Friday.

The report is from Michael Budkie, executive director of a group called Stop Animal Exploitation Now. Budkie, who has a degree in animal health technology, analyzed annual reports from the Madison lab as well as necropsy (the animal version of an autopsy) reports on monkeys that died in ...

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