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> One monkey in particular, Helen, [...] was a macaque monkey that had been decorticated; specifically, her primary visual cortex (V1) was completely removed, b
by anotherhuman0 8y ago
> One monkey in particular, Helen, [...] was a macaque monkey that had been decorticated; specifically, her primary visual cortex (V1) was completely removed, blinding her.
Wow, go humans. But I guess this is nothing in comparison with what the commercial farming industry gets up to :(
- taneq 8y agoYeah, if that got a squick reaction then don't go looking up too much animal-based research. We do all sorts of ugly things to animals in the name of science. :/ But we learn all sorts of interesting and useful things from it, so... it's one of those trolley problem things.