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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2021

Invasive Research on Non-Human Primates-Time to Turn the Page.

Maria Padrell, Miquel Llorente, Federica Amici

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Maria PadrellDepartament de Psicologia, Facultat d'Educació i Psicologia, Universitat de Girona, 17004 Girona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-7263-7711
Miquel LlorenteDepartament de Psicologia, Facultat d'Educació i Psicologia, Universitat de Girona, 17004 Girona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9003-1983
Federica AmiciDepartment of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3539-1067

Funding

Generalitat de Catalunya 2017 SGR-1040Universitat Rovira i Virgili 2019PFR-URV91
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Invasive research on primates (i.e., laboratory research that implies body manipulations causing pain or distress that is not aimed to directly improve the individuals' well-being) has a long history. Although some invasive studies have allowed answering research questions that we could not have addressed with other methods (or at least not as quickly), the use of primates in invasive research also raises ethical concerns. In this review, we will discuss (i) recent advances in the study of primates that show evidence of complex behaviour and cognition, (ii) welfare issues that might arise when using primates in invasive research, (iii) the main ethical issues that have been raised about invasive research on primates, (iv) the legal protection that primates are granted in several countries, with a special focus on the principle of the 3Rs, and (v) previous and current attempts to ban the use of primates in invasive research. Based on this analysis, we suggest that the importance of a research question cannot justify the costs of invasive research on primates, and that non-invasive methods should be considered the only possible approach in the study of primates.

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ethicsinvasive research banlegal protectionprinciple of the 3Rswelfare

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PMID34680019
PMCPMC8532895

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