Types of Laboratory Animal Use

Abstract

The nature and magnitude of impacts experienced by laboratory animals depend on a wide range of factors. These typically include level of invasiveness of procedures; neurological and cognitive capacity, and developmental stage, of the animals used; extent of analgesic (pain-killer) and anaesthetic use; degree of domestication of the species involved; stresses involved in the capture, transportation, and relocation of wild-sourced animals (such as some primates); level of environmental enrichment provided in laboratory housing; and amount of social contact provided for social species.