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Am I the only one who thinks 1500 seems low for what they are doing? And all animals used in clinical tests like these are destroyed after, so it's not like they are going out of their way to slaughter animals.

Could they use less animals by doing things differently? I'm not an expert on any of this but I'm sure they could, but how does this compare to any other experimental brain or spine stimulation testing?

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These are not mice, and there are much, much higher standards for animal experiments on e.g. primates. The expense and amount of effort per animal is also very different for monkeys compared to mice.

"including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys" Well most of them were rats or mice based on this article. It doesn't say 1,500 monkeys were killed.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/17/business/elon-musk-neural...

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