Yes, you are very right in your thinking. What i think is that animals are not present in their natural habitat when they are in laboratories. So all ... [more]
Yes, you are very right in your thinking. What i think is that animals are not present in their natural habitat when they are in laboratories. So all the procedures are not in sync with natural lifestyle. Another point is captivity of animal itself affects a lot to many systems and can affect results. Controlling psychological behaviour of captive rodent is very difficult and near impossible. I worked on rabbits, 6 in numbers. External envioronment and all stimulations to them were same, but still observations varied.
One exception i think is : create a disease in rodent and then check effect of a drug...