This sick little monkey “readily ate apricots.” That bad little monkey got none. An upset little monkey was “holding hands” with her “buddy” in the next-door cage, calmer after having some Valium, but still pulling on her brain-electrode port. These are details from a 700-page trove of veterinary reports — released by opponents of animal research — about the rhesus macaque monkeys used for research by Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a “brain-machine interface” company with an animal-testing lab in Fremont, California. The firm, founded in San Francisco in 2016, is implanting electrodes into the monkeys…
