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Animals will always be in peril as long as they are in close proximity to the human psyche.

Just look at the toxic environment around us. We are a danger to ourselves and all life.

How about: Seven mice HIGH ON METHAMPHETAMINE and forced to listen to The Prodigy died. None of the mine in the group that were given saline and also forced to listen to The Prodigy died. This study speculates that the beat in the aggressive music makes the drug more lethal--not that the music itself is lethal. TFA is so short I shouldn't even need to paste this in, but I'll do it anyway:

  Noise          Drug     Mice used   Died during  Died within 24h  Seizures (% total)
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  Silence        Saline   30          0            0                0
  White noise    Saline   29          0            0                0
  Bach           Saline   20          0            0                0
  Prodigy        Saline   29          0            0                0
  Silence        Meth     49          1 (=2.04%)   0                38.7
  White noise    Meth     30          0            0                63.3 
  Bach           Meth     40          4 (=10%)     0                75.0 
  Prodigy        Meth     40          2 (=5%)      3 (=7.5%)        77.5
As a laboratory mouse, if I had to die at the hands of any experimentation done in today's laboratory environment, I would have to say that this is probably the best way you could possibly go. Though an addition of little glow-sticks couldn't have hurt.
Fix the title: 1. 5, not 7, mice listening to Prodigy while on Meth died. 2. 4 mice listening to Bach while on Meth also died.