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Two Examples of Mice Experiments - Valid or Not?

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I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. Here's another experiment using mice to determine whether stress and chemicals in plastic is leading to messed up male genitals and, therefore, infertility.

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A True Mouse Anecdote -- does anyone have a similar story?

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And despite their tiny size, they are supposed to be as intelligent as rats which I believe are as smart or smarter than dogs and cats. Note that neither dogs nor cats have hands, but both mice and rats do. They are not genetically so dissimilar to humans, sharing a lot of our genetic material.

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Increase in Dutch Animal Testing

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Dutch researchers carried out 592,665 experiments on animals last year, a 2.5% The increase was largely due to new EU rules on chemical compounds, which have led to an increase in testing on rats, the inspectors said. From the DutchNews.nl. increase on 2008, government inspectors said on Friday.

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Animal Research Scientists Sponsor Billboards

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This billboard poses the issue as an either/or.save the child or the rat. How many of these experiments are even necessary? Certainly not showing what they do, how they are funded and how the licensing of their "altruistic" work nets them a tidy sum. It's not that simple.

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Welsh Report Shows Increased Animal Research at Cardiff University

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Here's an article about an increase in animal experiments at Cardiff University in Wales. In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia.

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Malaysian Official Says God Made Animals for Testing

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A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. That's why he created rats and monkeys. From the AP. The plans by India's Vivo BioTech Ltd. This is the way it has to be.

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Barred Owl

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A recent experience left me upside-down in a drift of pine needles as finding myself face-to-face with a Barred Owl was such a shock that I lost the power of standing. I had just come from a Rat Snake in a tree and was prepared to allow just enough space in my hopes for another reptile, but thoughts of owls quickly crowded it out again.

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