Animal welfare experts and advocates have questioned whether an Australian-led study that non-fatally strangled rats as part of research into the impact of intimate partner violence in humans should have been approved.
They argue that, despite gaining necessary ethical approvals, the study’s use of animals lacked justification given the potentially severe impacts on the animals, the limited translatability of the science and the availability of alternative, non-animal methods, and are calling for it not to be repeated.
