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by thedailymail 461 days ago
"It has an impressive resume, being the most studied animal in the world, subject of more investigations than even the Drosophila melanogaster or common fruit fly that resides in thousands of laboratories around the world."

It would be great to have a source for this claim! Recent studies have estimated that between 10 million and 110 million (it's controversial!) lab mice are used per year in the US, representing 93–97% of all experimental animals.

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-many-mice-and-ra...
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fc417fc802 461 days ago
It also just doesn't make any sense given how much cheaper and faster drosophila and c elegans both are.

> representing 93–97% of all experimental animals.

Experimental mammals maybe. Not animals in general.

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aa-jv 461 days ago
The mice aren't being studied for their mice-ness, they've been industrialised for their ease-of-production and easy-to-slaughter mammalian analog attributes.

Wheras Axoloti and co., are still being studied for their unique characteristics.

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