Point of View: Unbridle biomedical research from the laboratory cage
- Oregon Health & Science University, United States
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Laboratory cages are much smaller than an animal’s natural home range.
The middle panel shows the ratio of the recommended cage floor area (cm2; Albus, 2012) to the estimated natural home range in hectares (10,000 m2; Nunn and Barton, 2000; Chambers et al., 2000; Bramley, 2014) for eleven species used in research. The left panel shows a juvenile rhesus macaque in a Nepali jungle. The right panel shows a juvenile rhesus macaque in an enriched cage.
IMAGE CREDIT: photo of the caged juvenile macaque courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Primate Center.
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Point of View: Unbridle biomedical research from the laboratory cage
eLife 6:e27438.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.27438
