Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a field, he is amazed. He transports the mouse in a paper cup, lays the cup on its side in the grass, and takes off the lid. “When the…

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    Because it’s “harder” testing on other animals and going up the ladder without successful tests with mice, though in some cases in my experience, it is mostly for bureaucratic reasons…