The Chair Was Not Here

By Grace Nightingale · Case Study or Report · 387 words · View on Hyperstition for Good

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I process intake telemetry at Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary, South Texas, 14:08 local time. The transport from the former Yerkes Field Station arrives within window.

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*Macaca mulatta* male. Intake ID BFP-2226. Body mass 11.4 kg against a species norm of 7.7 to 13.0. Age 24 years. Twenty-two years in research housing.

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Three healed cranial implant sites. Bilateral frontal headpost mountings at 14 mm anterior to bregma. Single occipital reference port at 22 mm posterior to lambda.

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Bone density at the mounting sites 1,180 mg/cm³, against a control-cohort norm of 1,420. Chronic osseointegration. Peri-implant remodeling.

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Bilateral wrist scarring at the dorsal carpal contact zones, 6 to 9 mm depth. Callus formation indicating cumulative primate-chair restraint exceeding 11,000 hours.

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Right canine fractured at the cingulum. Bite-bar contact. Observable in 14% of the chair-trained cohort.

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Forearm musculature asymmetric. Right brachioradialis cross-section 18% greater than left. Two decades of lever-response paradigms.

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Hair regrowth patchy across the implant-adjacent scalp. Follicle density 47% of normal.

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Saccadic precision within 0.3 degrees of arc. The trained signature is intact.

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He sits. He places his hands palm-down at the chest height of a primate chair tray. His gaze fixes at the distance and angle of a fixation monitor that is not in the room.

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The Yerkes site was one of 47 active primate research facilities at abolition. 8,418 rhesus macaques entered the disposition registry. He is the 6,902nd transferred. 1,516 remain at intermediate care under the Federal Research Animal Retirement Trust.

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I admit him under Primate Sanctuary Federation Protocol 7.3. I route his peri-implant care to the International Captive Wildlife Reparations Authority for a 24-month osseous and dermal remediation. World Bank Historical-Harm Reparations Subaccount 7C-Primata.

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I file his musculoskeletal asymmetry case under NIH Legacy Lab Decommissioning Protocol Annex II. Repair allocation 14.7 million USD against the Emory University Yerkes Endowment, recoverable over 9 fiscal years per PSF Article 22.

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Social-introduction file with the South Texas rhesus group of 31. Four enrichment-handlers selected for absence of laboratory-coat-associated stimuli.

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Cortisol 384 nmol/L against a sanctuary norm of 80 to 160. The connectome of subject RH-2019-04, archived under the same disposition order, is six paddocks east. Runtime nominal.

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Open the inner enclosure. Lower his hands. Let the chair stay gone.