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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. Re:They forgot one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod parent +1 informative! :)