Question: Have you ever killed an animal for an experiment?

Chris Bowden answered on 10 Jun 2017:

No, I’ve never killed an animal but I have used animals that had already died naturally. At university, I looked inside a mini-shark called a dogfish to learn more about how fish grow. Here’s a picture of a dogfish:

I had to cut open the dogfish to look inside it. Then I had to draw all of the dogfish’s organs. But, as I was drawing out its inside parts, I realised something didn’t look like I expected it to look… The dogfish that I had was pregnant with two baby dogfish! This was very sad but the dogfish had died naturally in the ocean so it lived a natural life.

I think that most of the time, animals don’t need to be killed for experiments because there are other ways of looking at animals.