Animals should be tested before you eat them. If they score high on
the test, then they are "smart food".

I use dogs to test my trebuchet. I used to use rats but I had to go
too far to check the results.

An invaluable resource for the advancement of knowlege.
Such that a product makes a claim of not tested on animals
I avoid it. Don't get me wrong, I do see it as moral choice
to lessen the sufferring of the test animals as much
as possible. But a certain junctions of development lab test animals
are vital. To ignore that point is grossly immoral.

Think of the screw worm fly...................Trig

That depends. What kind of testing are you asking about?

IMO, previously announced testing is OK, but I think pop quizzes tend to
be too stressful, so generally, I'm against the latter. Although, I
guess that the possibility of pop quizzes might encourage the animals to
keep up with their assignments.

And, in some circumstances, the animals' knowledge might be better
evaluated with an assigned paper, rather than a test.

Other factors that need to be considered are:
Multiple choice vs. "fill in the blank" vs. essay;
Open book testing vs closed book;
Whether the test will be graded on a curve, or strictly on a percentage
basis.

By and large, they don't score very well in their age groups.

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