ELi5: Rats seem to be the gold standard for behavioral lab experiments – why? Other than quantity, what makes rats good test subjects in relation to humans?
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they recently started switching to lawyers for lab experiments instead of rats.
2 reasons: the lab techs get less attached and there’s some things you can’t even get a rat to do
but to answer your question rats are surprisingly similar to humans in a lot of ways and they breed quickly and are easy to take care of in a laboratory setting
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