Expert and Eyewitness Quotes

A vervet monkey was observed to be “shaking vigorously . . . like a [Chihuahua] shitting razor blades."

— United States of America. Department of Defense. US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense. Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Laboratory Exercise Worksheet: Tattoo #05222.

After physostigmine is given in the training video, the monkey goes through a violent spasm . . . With ketamine and physostigmine both causing increased salivation, this primate is close to drowning in his own saliva.

—Henry Melvyn Richardson, D.V.M., a California veterinarian with more than 30 years of experience—much of it with nonhuman primates

Two combat medics hold the rear leg of an unconscious goat . . . Instructor Armand Fermin places a tree trimmer over the joint in the leg, closes it, applies pressure, and a ‘crack’ echoes inside the dimly lit tent . . .

— Sig Christenson
in the San Antonio Express-News

One Navy corpsman reported that he was charged with keeping an anesthetized pig alive for as long as possible after the animal was subjected to serious injuries, saying of the pig that, “they shot him twice in the face with a 9-millimeter pistol, and then six times with an AK-47 and then twice with a 12-gauge shotgun. And then he was set on fire.” The corpsman kept the pig alive in this condition for 15 hours.

— C.J. Chivers
in The New York Times

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