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U.S activists protest sound-blasting tests on monkeys
Animal-rights activists dressed as monkeys locked in cages protested =
researchers' plans Thursday to blast monkeys with sounds louder than jet =
engines in order to simulate human hearing loss. A group of about 25 =
demonstrators gathered outside the University of California, San =
Francisco where researchers planned to anesthetize six squirrel monkeys =
and then blast them for two hours with sounds as loud as 140 decibels. =
The researchers plan to kill the animals after a few months and dissect =
their brains to examine how the brain changes as a result of hearing =
loss, and how it might be "retrained" to compensate for the loss. See =
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=3D2554692636-c2a
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