• Question: Do you by any chance test experiments on animals (wild) x from amy, fee & beacham.

    Asked by anon-1245 to Chris, Kay, Kerstin, Lorna, Liv on 23 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Chris Needham

      Chris Needham answered on 23 Mar 2010:


      I don’t test on animals, everything I do is computational!

    • Photo: Kerstin Zechner

      Kerstin Zechner answered on 23 Mar 2010:


      If working on little worms generally found in soil counts, then yes.

    • Photo: Olivia Hibbitt

      Olivia Hibbitt answered on 23 Mar 2010:


      Hey Amy,

      nope, it’s illegal to test on wild animals. I do perform animal experiments, but these are done on specially bred animals that have the disease I study.

    • Photo: Kay Penicud

      Kay Penicud answered on 23 Mar 2010:


      No, definitely not! Any use of animals in science has to be done in a really controlled way (keeping their temperature, diet etc constant, and keeping them free of any disease). To get good data you need to keep all variables constant – wild animals are too full of disease.

    • Photo: Lorna Houlihan

      Lorna Houlihan answered on 24 Mar 2010:


      Nope, some scientists do observation work on wild animals

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