Summary
Safe and humane transportation of live animals requires
dedicated, informed personnel who carefully plan and attend to the
details of appropriate animal care and handling throughout the shipping
process. Specifically, although transportation of non-human primates
shares goals common to all live animal transport, it also poses
unique challenges stemming from the nature of these animals. Some
of these unique challenges of transporting non-human primates, include
the impact of public perception of non-human primates as cargo,
maintaining biosecurity of non-human primate cargo, safety of both
the non-human primate and public contacts, meeting the vital husbandry
needs of varying species of non-human primates and compliance with
numerous regulatory agencies, which may have overlapping responsibilities.
This discussion will focus on these important considerations, as
they relate to the legal international transportation of non-human
primates for scientific use.
Keywords
Biosecurity,
CITES, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora, IATA, International Air Transport Association,
Non-human primate, Primate, Transportation, Welfare, Zoonoses.
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