Panic, Terror, and Near Drowning: The Forced Swim Test

Subscribe to #PETA: . 🔔Turn on ALL push notifications 🔔 The forced swim test is a widely used behavioral experiment on animals that involves placing mice, rats, or other small animals in inescapable cylinders filled with water. The traumatized animals will first try to escape by climbing up the sides or diving in search of an exit. They paddle furiously, desperately trying to keep their heads above water. Please take action to ask pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly to stop conducting this cruel and worthless test. PETA’s mission statement is that animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way: The website the meat industry doesn’t want you to see: How to go vegan: PETA Saves: PETA: FAQs: