[KennyBlanken]

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]

- 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]

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