期刊如何助力保护动物福利

Response We appreciate Carbone’s long-standing contributions to laboratory animal welfare and thank him for his thoughtful engagement with our study. Our experimental design was developed with explicit atten- tion to refinement and necessity. Before the study began, the monkeys were trained for audiomotor synchronization by using standard pri- mate neuroscience methods, which allow voluntary seating, postural comfort, and substantial freedom of movement, with only minimal restraint required to ensure task precision and safety. Hydration protocols were conservative, strictly and continuously monitored, and adjusted to maintain health and normal body weight. The study described in the Research Article “Monkeys have rhythm” by V. G. Rajendran et al. (27 November 2025, 10.1126/science. …