Two biggest cargo carriers affirm that they will not ship mammals and non-human primates, as activist pressure mounts to stop research-animal airlifts.
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Wadman, M. Lab-animal flights squeezed. Nature 489, 344–345 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/489344a
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