Today's campus headline: Vandals hit labs; Spence, Seashore closed
"Rats, mice and pigeons scampered and swooped through the halls of Spence Laboratories on Sunday after the psychology department's animal labs were ransacked, forcing the university to close the building today to make way for cleanup efforts. A criminal investigation that includes the FBI was continuing Sunday.
More than 30 computers and three offices were also damaged, and hazardous chemicals were deliberately spilled...."
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Can you imagine the chaos? Animals...everywhere! Those lab animals are EXPENSIVE. It was only when I saw requisitions to purchase lab animals that I learned that lab animals are specially bred. Researchers need a controllable experiment, which requires a control animal without the variation of disease, illness, etc that could appear with street-animals. Who knew?
We have an elevator in an adjoining building that always reeks of animal. Other staff members jokingly refer to it as the "Monkey-vator". I don't like the idea of experimenting on animals, but the thought of experimenting on monkeys & primates really makes me upset. Chimpanzees are man's closest cousin on the evolutionary scale. They can communicate with sign language for heaven's sake.
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I think I read somewhere that a chimp shares 86% of the same DNA as a human and a nematode 75%, which means that chimps are more closely related to the worm than humans (100%). It just goes to show that even a few percentage points can mean quite a lot.
With that said, if humans want makeup safe enough to put on their faces, try it out on humans not a chimp. Chimps look rather sluttish in makeup.
Yes, upon reflection, chimps do look rather cheap in makeup....but they make for fantastic birthday card pictures!
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