Female Rats Strangled in Domestic Violence Test
An Australian university hung weights over female rats’ necks, strangling them in a crude attempt to study domestic violence in humans. The pointless test cannot mimic the complexity of trauma experienced by human victims and disregards female life in another animal form.
Animal-Free Science Advocacy first exposed the cruel test that took place at Melbourne’s Monash University.
Near-Death Strangulation
Monash experimenters inflicted brain damage on female rats. Then, they strangled them by attaching heavy weights to their tiny heads to simulate the traumatic injuries endured by human victims of domestic violence.
Despite the relentless pain and suffering caused by the test, experimenters did not provide painkillers to the rats before subjecting them to traumatic brain injuries. Some animals had to be resuscitated after losing consciousness during strangulation.
Effective, Human-Relevant Methods
The gruesome experiment cannot begin to accurately mimic the complexity of traumas that human victims experience after domestic violence. Advanced non-animal methods, such as imaging and computer models, could have allowed researchers to effectively study brain injuries without harming animals.
Rats and humans have vastly different brain structures, and while animals can experience stress, they don’t process and manifest trauma in comparable ways. By tormenting animals instead of pursuing human-relevant research methods, this experiment on rats succeeded only in diverting resources away from modern, animal-free research that could help domestic abuse victims.
PETA Scientists Speak Out for Rats
PETA-entity scientists have written to the journal [link] that published the experiment, asking it to retract the paper.
PETA US and PETA Australia are also urging Monash University and the Australian government agency that bankrolled the cruel test to prohibit all strangulation and traumatic brain injury experiments on animals.
Officials were urged by PETA Australia to launch a cruelty-to-animals investigation. The letter asks that relevant disciplinary actions be applied regarding the experimenters’ apparent violation of Australian standards, which recommend replacing animals in tests with non-animal methods wherever possible.
What You Can Do
Monash University experimenters are not alone in their torment of animals. 2.6 million procedures were carried out on animals in UK laboratories in 2023. You can join PETA in speaking out by urging the UK government to commit to ending all experiments on animals now:
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