A still image from a video obtained by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals shows one of the vole experiments conducted by an OHSU researcher in 2017.Courtesy: PETA
A judge awarded roughly $434,000 in legal fees Friday to an animal rights group engaged in a yearslong legal battle with Oregon Health & Science University over the school’s research into the effect of alcohol on prairie voles.
The case began in late 2017, when OSHU researcher Andrey Ryabinin published a journal article finding that alcohol weakened the partner bond between male and female voles but had little effect on aggression among male voles.
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