Then came India's ban on the export of viable research specimens to the United States. And those monkeys would fill a valuable research need.īy the time of Morgan Island's first arrivals, America's supply of rhesus monkeys was dwindling, according to a 1989 report in the Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal. In the years that followed, that number would eventually balloon to almost 4,000. Helena Sound off the coast of Beaufort, first welcomed its newest residents: a free-roaming colony of what would initially amount more than 1,400 rhesus monkeys, the descendants of a Puerto Rican primate research center. It was in the summer of 1979 that Morgan Island, nestled in St.
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