In 1971 she saw monkeys piled up in the cargo area of a Bangkok airport and began her mission to save them. They were going to New York.
In 1996, she told a magazine that the babies looked so helpless that she thought they were appealing to her for help. I ran across people on the same soi with pet gibbons and primates for sale in markets.
The International Primate Protection League was formed two years later. The British-born Ms. McGreal was a formidable voice against the misery suffered by monkeys from Asia, Africa and South America.
She helped stop India from exporting rhesus monkeys to the US. She wanted the U.S. government to close a lab at the University of California, Davis that used smuggled baby gibbons. She exposed a Florida primate dealer who smuggled six baby orangutans from Indonesian Borneo in crates marked "birds" with Moscow expected to be their final destination.
She opened a sanctuary for gibbons that had been kept as pets or confined in labs, zoos and roadside attractions.
Jane Goodall said that Ms. McGreal was compassionate, passionate, committed and brave. She won all of the devastating lawsuits that she went through, because she was not afraid to tackle anything.
Not quite. In 1983, Ms. McGreal wrote a letter to the editor of the Journal of Medical Primatology, which was critical of a plan by the company Immuno to use captured chimpanzees for hepatitis research in Sierra Leone. She was sued for libel by Immuno. Ms. McGreal's insurance company paid $100,000 for her settlement after she racked up $250,000 in legal bills. The Court of Appeals in New York held that her statement of opinion was not actionable.
Ms. McGreal was found dead at her home on the grounds of the sanctuary. She was old. John said she had had pneumonia before she died.
The Washington Post reported in the late 1970s that the armed forces radiobiology research institute was doing traumatic experiments on rhesus monkeys imported from India. One experiment was to find out how long soldiers could fight after being irradiated.
The monkeys were put on a treadmill and given electric shocks if they slacked off. This research is the worst I have ever heard of. How can a scientist watch monkeys vomit and writhe in pain?
She contacted all the major newspapers in India after Congress and the Department of Defense refused to take action against the experiments. He banned the export of rhesus monkeys in 1977.
Mr. Desai wrote to Ms. McGreal that he believed in preventing cruel treatment of living beings. This is the ancient Indian culture and a part of vegetarianism.
A company in Portland, Ore., signed a contract with Bangladesh to export more than 70,000 rhesus monkeys and other primate over 10 years, but some of them would have gone to the military research institute. Ms. McGreal wrote letters to the government in Bangladesh. The contract was not renewed.
She told The Free Press that there are good alternatives to animal research. People will look back at our concentration camps for monkeys and be appalled in a hundred years.
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Ms. McGreal has a sanctuary in South Carolina which was dedicated to the primate.
On May 4, 1934, in Mobberley, a village in England, there was a born. Kate Pollitt was a homemaker who had an emotional breakdown after her husband died in a car accident, while her father worked for a bank.
She studied Latin and French at the University of London and earned a master's degree in teaching education from the school.
She received a second master's degree in French literature from the University of Illinois after teaching languages in schools and colleges in the United States, France and Australia. She received her PhD in education from the University of Cincinnati in 1971.
She went with her husband to New Delhi, where he worked on a National Science Foundation project, and then to Thailand, where he worked for the United Nations. Ms. McGreal encountered the macaques at the airport.
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This year, many people died, including Hank Aaron, Colin Powell, Stephen Sondheim, Beverly Cleary, DMX, Larry King, and many others.
Mr. McGreal said that she did research to see who was doing what in the animal trade. Her interest in them was instantaneous.
Ms. McGreal was known for her willingness to help other groups financially and for her worldwide network of people who alert her to primate in life.
The douc langur monkey is protected by a foundation run by a primatologist who is on the league's board. She has gotten death threats, and they steel her even more. It takes a certain kind of person to do what she does.
Dr. Lippold said that Ms. McGreal led a group of people to write to the prime minister of Vietnam to stop the development of a forest where doucs eat.
If she came after you, you had no escape, said Dr. Lippold.
Ms. McGreal received an award from the Dutch Police League in 1993 for exposing a smuggler and Queen Elizabeth II in 2008.
Her husband designed and built the gibbon houses and outdoor enclosures at the sanctuary.
Thirty gibbons live in the sanctuary, which now spans 37 acres. A lab is where peppy arrived. He had been in a lab and a sanctuary. He was a pet. Gary, Jade, Maui,Erin and Jade were moved from sanctuaries to zoos. The sanctuary has children with the man who came from the Davis lab after it lost its National Cancer Institute funding.
When he was 2 years old, he was identified by a blue tattoo on his stomach. He struck his head on the side of his cage as he tried to adapt to his new surroundings.
Ms. McGreal consulted a doctor and was told to mirror the behavior of someone else to show it didn't work. Ms. McGreal said she was banging her head against the wall.
It worked. Eventually, he stopped hisdestructive behavior. He lived at the refuge for 37 years.
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