Rhesus Macaque

In chapter six of Opening Skinner's Box, "Monkey Love" Lauren Slater begins by introducing us to psychologist Harry Harlow. Harlow was known as a difficult, disrespectful man, but was also known to be very devoted and was mainly known for experimenting with monkeys and the way they expressed their feelings regarding attachment (Slater 132). Slater explains in great detail Harlow's approach towards the monkeys, he had no feelings for them and could care less what pain they endured during the…

On the Marquardt Beauty Analysis website, even though there are differences with people that are in the same category, there are familiarities of people group in the same category because as Marquardt, S. (2001) stated, sometimes it helps to understand the people better with respect to their general tendencies of the group. Therefore, the Asian ethnic group was selected for this lab because the image of the subject belongs to that ethnic group. The face-mask criterion confirm with the face that…

Raiza Ruiz-Kline Sarah Klein MCWP 40 8 October 2015 Writing Prompt 1: “Revenge of the Nerds” In “Revenge of the Nerds” Steven Pinker asserts that four dominant traits contributed to the way of life that allowed the ancestors of the modern Homo sapiens to develop powers of reasoning and enter what he refers to as “the cognitive niche” (Pinker 191). By establishing the function of these four traits and linking them all to the resulting lifestyle changes as these traits evolved (and the subsequent…

Harry Harlow was a psychologist who ran test on Rhesus macaque monkeys. He originally ran test on the monkeys to see how the would maternally bond. He would arrange the monkeys with cones covered with towels. He would then have the “mother” shoot cold air or spikes at the infant monkey. This was to stimulate an abusive mother. The point of his original experiment was to see if a child relied on their mother for food or affection. Then in 1971 his wife died. This lead him to fall into a deep…

1932, after a scientist in New York got bit by a monkey while he was researching a polio vaccine. He developed slow symptoms such as paralysis of the legs, tender lymph nodes, etc. After three days, he died. Herpes B was found to be carried by rhesus macaque, as well as other Asian monkeys. The only weird thing is that people get scratched by these monkeys all the time and never get sick. I asked why and I agree when the author said that “ecology has provided opportunities, but evolution hasn’t…

Spillover is not just a regular book about diseases. In this book, the author, David Quammen, dialogues about a multitude of zoonotic diseases, which are pathogens that can be transmitted from an animal into a human. There are eleven diseases that the author primarily discusses: Hendra, Ebola, Malaria, SARS, Q-fever, Psittacosis, Lyme disease, Herpes B, Nipah and HIV/AIDS. All of these are viruses, with the exceptions of Q-fever, Psittacosis and Lyme disease, which are bacterium. All zoonotic…

fondness for the culturally assigned behaviors for most males, it was difficult to feel fully male in American society. Being born into a military family, I was separated from the family structure commonly found to reinforce gender roles. Similar a rhesus macaques in the study by Harry and Margaret Harlow, I did not have constant male figure present in my life to teach me how a male should behave in our society (Zuk, 2013, p. 9). While the monkeys in the Harlows’ study were deprived a real…

Hannah Hilden-Reid November 13, 2014 Caitlin: Tues 9 am Scientific Paper Analysis #3: Physiological and Behavioral Response to Weaning Conflict in Free-Ranging Primate Infants Tara M. Mandalaywala, James P. Higham, Michael Heistermann, Karen J. Parker, and Dario Maestripieri set out to test the hypothesis that maternal rejection during the weaning period elicits both psychological and energetic stress on primates. They predicted that elevated concentrations of fecal glucocorticoid metabolite…

tranquilizer dark from the home of Elizabeth Fowler. Mrs. Fowler had grown fond of the monkey, who watched her family from outside the sliding door. He tried to play with the dog. He tried to frolic with the children. But three weeks ago the monkey, a rhesus macaque, jumped on Mrs. Fowler’s back, startling her, which in turn startled him. He bit her shoulder, prompting the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to set out once again to trap…

Zika Virus Virus Virus is an infection that causes diverse of effects in the immune system and other segments of the body. The virus also can duplicate in the living cells of hosts. An infection molecule is only a piece of DNA in a defensive coat. The infection interacts with a cell, connects itself to the cell divider and infuses its DNA (and maybe a couple of compounds) into the cell. The DNA utilizes the apparatus inside the living cell to duplicate new infection particles. In the end the…