

RARF to retire their first 3 monkeys
The first three monkeys are planned to be retired by late fall 2017. They will be going to the newly opened Primates Incorporated in Wisconsin. The monkeys are male rhesus macaques: Izzle, Mars and River. They are research primates that participated in different research projects, but were all related to neuroprosthetics. Mars is a 12 year old rhesus macaque who contributed to the development of cortical visual prostheses. In order to help understand how electrical stimul