Petra, the monkey, spent the final moments of her life in a cold, cramped steel cage at the University of California—San Francisco after enduring invasive brain surgeries. She rapidly lost weight and circled endlessly in her cage until experimenters finally killed her.
The heartbreaking story of many monkeys like Petra begins in the wild, when they're torn away from their families and shipped overseas in a tiny box in the cargo hold of an airplane. During the long journey to the laboratory, the dark "room" sways and bucks from turbulence. No one comforts them when their ears pop or they're miserable with motion sickness. They are hungry, thirsty, and terrified.
Laboratories rely on airlines such as Air France to feed them a seemingly endless supply of primates to cripple, poison, infect, and kill. If we could cut off the supply, we could stop cruel and deadly experiments on monkeys.
Tell Air France officials to stop this cruel practice!
