It is refreshing to note that these views apparently are not shared by their coworker, Michael W. Fox, the ScientifIc Director of the Humane Society of the United States. In his recent book Laboratory Animal Husbandry (State University of New York Press, 1986), Fox states: "It is indeed a major challenge to the laboratory animal scientist to sort out which physiological functions and behavioral indices may be used as diagnostic criteria of poor housing and social stress there is a wealth of unanswered questions in this field that warrants further research" (p. 19).
Similarly, whereas Lockwood and Stephens advise us not to waste our time with "parametric tinkering" such as investigating the role of cage size, Fox states (in noting that the NIH recommendations on cage size for each species are half those of authorities in the United Kingdom): "Clearly, such rudimentary elements of laboratory animal husbandry cannot have been ...
