Word: deegan
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These arrangements are not left to chance, either, according to Ciotti and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Director of Animal Facilities George P. Deegan. Claustrophobic mice will receive get no special dispensations, since the space between cages is strictly mandated, as is the size and type of wire and number of mice per cage...
Mouse bathrooms aren't available either, but cages will be cleaned twice a week and "many tons" of waste will be bagged and exported from the facility, say Ciotti and Deegan...
Even the cleaning of the cages will be strictly regulated. The racks will be washed on an exactly 180-degree rinse cycle, and all 3,500 cages will be cleaned twice a week. "You could drive a Toyota in there," Deegan says of the rack-washing room...
...exactness of the construction is also important because small glitches can endanger any experiment. Deegan recalls one professor, who, for reasons still unexplained, lost his frogs and with them an experiment in progress. Perfect maintenance with delicate balances is necessary for Harvard's legions of experimental guinea pigs, rats, ants and toads as well, he says...