Federal authorities are investigating the death of a rabbit used in research at MIT after a technician failed to remove the animal before its cage was ... Care and Use of Laboratory Animals ...

after a research lab rabbit died when it was sent through a machine that cleans animal cages. Ohio-based Stop Animal Exploitation NOW, which monitors animal research, wants the U.S. Department of ...

(Reuters) - An animal-rights group has called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fine the Massachusetts Institute of Technology because of a January incident in which a rabbit at a research lab ...

The rabbit was housed in a large cage but was given supervised exercise time in a tiled bathroom. No other rabbits were present in the household. The rabbit's diet consisted primarily of a mixed ...

The primary goal of environmental enrichment should be the avoidance of abnormal behaviors in laboratory animals such as rodents ... spent chewing on the toys instead of on the cage was evaluated.

The staff in the lab at the South Orange university denied the mice the “essential necessities needed to sustain life” and left their overcrowded cages black with feces, with dead baby mice ...

CAMBRIDGE Mass. (Reuters) - An animal-rights group has called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fine the Massachusetts Institute of Technology because of a January incident in which a ...