Supplemental information for Capuchin monkeys killed just to get their brains in Brazil, published 13 January 2023

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  Professor (Dr.) Denise Pires de Carvalho <reitoria@reitoria.ufrj.br>
  
  
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  Vice-Chancellor Professor Carlos Frederico Leão Rocha <vicereitoria@reitoria.ufrj.br>, Graduate Program in Biological Sciences-Physiology <secretaria@biof.ufrj.br>, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Ph.D., Editor, Journal of Comparative Neurology <suzana.herculano@vanderbilt.edu>
  
  
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  Killing of capuchins as 'research' and 'education'
  
  
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  Professor (Dr.) Denise Pires de Carvalho Dean Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil Dear Professor (Dr.) de Carvalho: I am writing to strongly object to a project that was done at your institution in the name of 'science' and 'education'. In this project, adult capuchins were killed just to obtain their brains for a study that will not benefit humans (or capuchins) (see reference below). Such research is immoral and should not have been allowed to be done. I urge the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro to stop all research using non-human primates. Sincerely, Reference: Architecture of the inferior parietal cortex in capuchin monkey (https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.25449)

Relevant individuals who are responsible for this research, or who have supported it directly or indirectly, in this Take Action alert:

• Professor (Dr.) Denise Pires de Carvalho, Dean, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• Vice-Chancellor Professor Carlos Frederico Leão Rocha, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• Graduate Program in Biological Sciences-Physiology (secretaria@biof.ufrj.br) (they are responsible for the graduate student who was part of this research)
• Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Ph.D., Editor, who allowed this research to be published in Journal of Comparative Neurology (suzana.herculano@vanderbilt.edu)