Harlow suggested that the same results apply to human babies that the timing is critical when it comes to separating a child from his or her mother.
Monkey experiment heated floor baby.
Here s a story about a research study that was done with monkeys.
These experiments involved rearing newborn total isolates and monkeys with surrogate mothers ranging from toweling covered cones to a machine that modeled abusive mothers by assaulting the baby monkeys with cold air or spikes.
Story found here if link doesn t work it s story 60 i believe level 1.
Over the years it was pieced together to form the urban legend as it now.
Peta has obtained documents hundreds of photographs and more than 500 hours of never before seen high definition videos taken inside this nih facility detailing the ongoing psychological abuse of baby monkeys in disgustingly cruel and archaic experiments that have been funded by more than 30 million just in the past seven years.
A cycle of suffering.
Stephenson found in cultural acquisition of a specific learned response among rhesus monkeys as well as certain experiments with chimpanzees conducted by wolfgang kohler in the 1920s.
Harlow believed that it is at 90 days for monkeys and about 6 months for humans.
Harlow s monkey experiment reinforced the importance of mother and child bonding.
In shocking videos obtained by peta the national institutes of health nih terrorizes baby monkeys it has intentionally bred to be mentally ill wasting mo.
This story a modern day fable was inspired in part by the experiments of g r.
Significance of the harlow s monkey experiment.
In 1971 harlow s wife died of cancer and he began to suffer from depression.
The closest i can find is that it s actually a retelling of an indian story of akbar and birbal where instead of a heated floor it s rising water in a well pond where the mother monkey standing on child so that it can live.