About 85 percent of these animals are rats and mice.
Monument to lab mouse in Novosibirsk, Russia.
The statue depicts a mouse in a lab coat and glasses, knitting the DNA double helix.
The bronze monument was erected the following year.
Also in Russia, is this monument.
Its a monkey, or rather a frilled baboon, also called a Hamadryad.
As you’re able to probably see, the animal is pretty odd looking.
It was erected in 1977 on occasion of the 50th founding anniversary of the monkey nursery at the institute.
Sukhumis monkey nursery was renowned in Soviet times for training monkeys for space flights.
Eight monkey astronauts from the nursery have made it to orbit.
Several universities and research institutes in countries of the former Soviet Union have monuments dedicated to animals.
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Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning.
Pavlov called the dogs' anticipatory salivation “psychic secretion”.
Pavlovs works on the physiology of digestion eventually won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904.
Pavlovs experiments with the dogs were a new kind of study at that time.
His laboratory housed a full-scale kennel and his experiments ran for several weeks.
The final act involved exposing the animals nerves on the neck and stimulating them with electricity.
Also in Memory of the 232 dogs Vivisected at the same place during the year 1902.
Men and Women of England how long shall these Things be?
Memorial to the Brown Dog.
They were spun around in centrifuges and subjected to simulated noises of the spacecraft.
The traumatic experience made many dogs to give up urinating or defecating altogether.
It wasnt until 2002 that the true cause of her death was revealed.
The Soviet government instead claimed that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six.
