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3. Special purpose like education, breeding, and defense:
Animals are also used for education and training; are bred
for use in laboratories; and are used by the military to
develop weapons, vaccines, battlefield surgical
techniques, and defensive clothing
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. For example, in 2008
the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency used live pigs to study the effects of improvised
explosive device explosions on internal organs, especially
the brain
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. From school level science programme, we use
animals for learning. Animals are also used in the field of
Biology, Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry,
Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Psychological and
Pharmacologial Sciences as tools of learning and
experiments
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