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Thank god we have these close relatives to experiment on!

• wyldfire 4y ago
  Who's experimenting on whom? They're working on the Ultimate Question as we speak.
  • nix23 4y ago
    ;) It think we all know what the answer is.
  • cutler 4y ago
    But left the fiddly bits and fjords to another species.
• KennyBlanken 4y ago
  They're used for research precisely because they have a great deal of similarities to humans. Also: - they have a short gestation period and produce lots of young making it easy to breed them - their opex is low - they're easy and relatively safe to handle - they're well understood - there are numerous genetically engineered variants are available
  • vasco 4y ago
    - And humans don't give a shit if we mass kill them because they are not overly cute. Otherwise we'd just use humans or apes or something more similar to us.
    • kevviiinn 4y ago
      Monkeys are used in research but they can be hard to work with. I've heard stories of flinging poop and them pulling implanted electrodes out of their brain