Incorporating an Ethological Perspective to Improve Animal Welfare and Data Quality
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Concern for animal welfare is nothing new. In 1959, two British scientists, Bill Russell and Rex Burch, famously presented an agenda now known as the three Rs for parsimonious use of animals in research: scientists would be diligent in searching to replace animal experiments with non-animal methods, refine experiments to eliminate suffering, and reduce the number of animals required in individual experiments and overall by improving the return from each experiment involving an animal.
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