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The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-a-list-you-want-to-be-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Discover Magazine has this odd photo gallery in which they explain why certain animals are used in scientific research. Why are high-tech contact lenses always tried out in rabbits? Why do we study monogamy in prairie voles? Etc. They say of the 9 animals: 'Taken (or stitched) together, they form a kind of laboratory doppelganger for humans.'"

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  1. They forgot one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    College students.

  2. Rabbits and contacts.... by dgatwood · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would think it would be obvious why they put contacts on rabbits. They tried it on cats, but they gave up after they had to amputate a scientist's arm from the claw damage.

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    1. Re:Rabbits and contacts.... by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

      Thats very true. One summer my parents cat got into the habit if sleeping on their pot belly stove. First time we used it that year this horrible scream was heard around the house. The cat charged across the living room, bounced off the far corner ricocheted into the kitchen and huddled under the kitchen table.

      So then I applied the standard treatment for burns, to immerse the affected area in cold water.....

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