A MONKEY PARADISE
TINY ISLAND OF SANTIAGO. Santiago, a tiny island two miles off the port of San Juan, Puerto Rico, serves as a “monkey paradise” for a dozen simians that recently were shipped from New York under < the care of Felix Lamela, of the Columbia University School for Tropical Medicine. Valued at approximately £2OOO, the group included eight gibbons, two nocturnal loris, and two Capuchin monkeys, who will live on the uninhabited island and breed a pure strain of descendants for scien'tific experiments and medical research. Scientists will visit the island once a week to check on the monkeys’ behaviour and test their reactions to pneumonia and other disease germs. Some years ago, 1500 fruit trees were planted on Santiago to provide a source of food for the monkeys.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 5
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