Facilities

Laboratory of Primate Morphology

The Laboratory of Primate Morphology (LPM) is located at the UPR-Medical Sciences Campus in San Juan. The laboratory houses over 3000 skeletons of rhesus macaques from Cayo Santiago and Sabana Seca, as well as a variety of other primate taxa. The LPM collection is one of the largest and most valuable collections of nonhuman primate skeletons in the world, and continues to grow. Identity, age, sex, matriline, and parity are known for many of the individuals in the collection. They provide a unique resource for the study of growth and development, normal variation, and age-related pathologies of the skeletal system.