This story a modern day fable was inspired in part by the experiments of g r.
Monkey experiment heated floor baby.
When the first monkey approached the banana and tried to pick it up he received a mild shock.
Harlow believed that it is at 90 days for monkeys and about 6 months for humans.
Here s a story about a research study that was done with monkeys.
Over the years it was pieced together to form the urban legend as it now.
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.
A cycle of suffering.
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.
In 1971 harlow s wife died of cancer and he began to suffer from depression.
Harlow s monkey experiment reinforced the importance of mother and child bonding.
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.
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.
Significance of the harlow s monkey experiment.
Story found here if link doesn t work it s story 60 i believe level 1.
Four monkeys were put into an observation room with one banana on the floor the monkeys were wired so that the researchers could give each monkey a mild shock.