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I feel bad for the beetle in this experiment. It must have spent a lot of its energy reserve to emerge out of the frog, probably to have been swallowed again.

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Natsu 3y ago
Well the one where they immobilized the legs just got eaten, so... yeah. The photos of the escape make me imagine the world's strangest motivational "hang in there" type of poster.
- AdamN 3y ago
  "Never say Never!" "There is no try, only do"
  - gcanyon 3y ago
    "There is no try, only doo doo"
- tanseydavid 3y ago
  I think they should rename the insect to the "Andy Dufresne Beetle" -- the escape totally reminds me of Shawshank Redemption.
hhh 3y ago
One must imagine the beetle happy Duster — Me And The Birds starts playing
hutzlibu 3y ago
"probably to have been swallowed again" Likely not. Animal trials are usually one use, to get the best data. And the animals in use get usually killed afterwards anyway. If you like animals, you probably do not want to learn too many details about it all.
- jonasdegendt 3y ago
  This depends, I used to work at a biotech company and when the dogs there were retired from their trial, the employees would typically "adopt" them and try and give them another good couple of months. They usually didn't make it very long but it's something. This was dogs though, so advanced stages of the trial, early stage vermin definitely didn't get the same treatment. Side story: I did IT there and could access just about any building on campus, but whenever I had to go to the animal testing building to do whatever maintenance it was, I had a security guard escort and loom over me wherever I went. From what I was told they had an animal rights group infiltrate and attempt to release all of the animals a couple of years before.
  - NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
    In the 1980s, Skinny Puppy was a popular band in the clubs and my social circles. Animal welfare was a real issue already. I purchased this album that was a fundraiser for the Animal Liberation Front, and really, my main takeaway from this smash hit song would be the horrors of Thalidomide and its devastating effects on the poor children and childbearing/pregnant mothers, in countries where the drug factories really didn't care about safety or humans or animals (I suppose that describes all of them). https://youtu.be/bVnVcbuoyWU https://youtu.be/bVnVcbuoyWU
  - stevezsa8 3y ago
    I can believe that. I went to a vegan restaurant once and met some randoms in London, I think it was a meetup.com thing. And one lady was telling me how she would happily take a lead pipe and hurt people working in animal testing. I was shocked that someone would would share their violent ideals with a total stranger. I mean I could have been an undercover policeman or something... And just to be clear, I definitely don't think hurting humans is a good idea.
    - hutzlibu 3y ago
      "I mean I could have been an undercover policeman or something..." If the police wanted to bust people hypothetically threatening other people with violence, they just have to look on social media a bit. But as far as I know, a vague hypothetical threat like this, would probably be dismissed by a court. I rather know, that there are many people walking freely around who do make not cague, but concrete threats to concrete people and the police usually says, they cannot do anything.
quijoteuniv 3y ago
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hackernewds 3y ago
There is a version of beetle that incapacitates the frog's legs and eats it slowly while it is immobilized. Nature is metal.

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Natsu 3y ago

Well the one where they immobilized the legs just got eaten, so... yeah. The photos of the escape make me imagine the world's strangest motivational "hang in there" type of poster.

AdamN 3y ago
"Never say Never!" "There is no try, only do"
- gcanyon 3y ago
  "There is no try, only doo doo"
tanseydavid 3y ago
I think they should rename the insect to the "Andy Dufresne Beetle" -- the escape totally reminds me of Shawshank Redemption.

hhh 3y ago

One must imagine the beetle happy Duster — Me And The Birds starts playing

hutzlibu 3y ago

"probably to have been swallowed again" Likely not. Animal trials are usually one use, to get the best data. And the animals in use get usually killed afterwards anyway. If you like animals, you probably do not want to learn too many details about it all.

jonasdegendt 3y ago
This depends, I used to work at a biotech company and when the dogs there were retired from their trial, the employees would typically "adopt" them and try and give them another good couple of months. They usually didn't make it very long but it's something. This was dogs though, so advanced stages of the trial, early stage vermin definitely didn't get the same treatment. Side story: I did IT there and could access just about any building on campus, but whenever I had to go to the animal testing building to do whatever maintenance it was, I had a security guard escort and loom over me wherever I went. From what I was told they had an animal rights group infiltrate and attempt to release all of the animals a couple of years before.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  In the 1980s, Skinny Puppy was a popular band in the clubs and my social circles. Animal welfare was a real issue already. I purchased this album that was a fundraiser for the Animal Liberation Front, and really, my main takeaway from this smash hit song would be the horrors of Thalidomide and its devastating effects on the poor children and childbearing/pregnant mothers, in countries where the drug factories really didn't care about safety or humans or animals (I suppose that describes all of them). https://youtu.be/bVnVcbuoyWU https://youtu.be/bVnVcbuoyWU
- stevezsa8 3y ago
  I can believe that. I went to a vegan restaurant once and met some randoms in London, I think it was a meetup.com thing. And one lady was telling me how she would happily take a lead pipe and hurt people working in animal testing. I was shocked that someone would would share their violent ideals with a total stranger. I mean I could have been an undercover policeman or something... And just to be clear, I definitely don't think hurting humans is a good idea.
  - hutzlibu 3y ago
    "I mean I could have been an undercover policeman or something..." If the police wanted to bust people hypothetically threatening other people with violence, they just have to look on social media a bit. But as far as I know, a vague hypothetical threat like this, would probably be dismissed by a court. I rather know, that there are many people walking freely around who do make not cague, but concrete threats to concrete people and the police usually says, they cannot do anything.

quijoteuniv 3y ago

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hackernewds 3y ago

There is a version of beetle that incapacitates the frog's legs and eats it slowly while it is immobilized. Nature is metal.