National Primate Centre shows off its monkeys

We were sent some wonderful pictures of monkeys (mainly macaques) to share with our readers. Thank you to Kathy West and the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC) for these pictures. Images like this play an important part in letting people see the conditions that animals are kept in at their research facilities. These photographs are from the large outdoor corrals where most of the primates are kept at CNPRC.

CNPRC uses primates in important medical and scientific research and has a huge array of accomplishments to its name. These include:

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