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And the precursor to the African clawed frogs test was the Rabbit test[0] where a rabbit would be injected with human urine. Unfortunately for the rabbits, the test required killing them to examine their ovaries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test



"You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died"

- Aerosmith, Sweet Emotion


Yes it did!

Oh the odd connections between all these living things and their chemicals.


See now this one makes sense to me, but the frog one seems crazy. If I wanted to know if I was pregnant, my first thought would have instinctively been rabbits.




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