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Experiments on the humane killing of crabs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

John R. Baker
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University Museum, University of Oxford

Extract

The main purpose of the work described in this paper was to find a humane way of killing crabs for eating, but the method that resulted from the investigation is applicable also in the biological laboratory, unless it is necessary that the nerve ganglia should be intact.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1955

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