{"data":{"id":"us/50-cfr-14.102","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"50 CFR 14.102","heading":"Definitions.","body":"In addition to the definitions contained in part 10 of subchapter B of this chapter, in this subpart—\nAmbient air temperature means the temperature of the air surrounding a primary enclosure containing a wild mammal or bird.\nAuxiliary ventilation means cooling or air circulation provided by such means as vents, fans, blowers, or air conditioning.\nCarrier means any person operating an airline, railroad, motor carrier, shipping line, or other enterprise engaged in the business of transporting any wild mammal or bird for any purpose including exhibition and for any person, including itself.\nCommunicable disease means any contagious, infectious, or transmissible disease of wild mammals or birds.\nConveyance means any vehicle, vessel, or aircraft employed to transport an animal between its origin and destination.\nDo not tip means do not excessively rock or otherwise move from a vertical to a slanting position, knock over, or upset.\nHandle means feed, manipulate, crate, shift, transfer, immobilize, restrain, treat, or otherwise control the movement or activities of any wild mammal or bird.\nHolding area means a designated area at or within a terminal facility that has been specially prepared to provide shelter and other requirements of wild mammals or birds being transported to the United States and in which such mammals or birds are maintained prior to, during, or following such shipment.\nKept clean means maintained free from dirt, trash, refuse, excreta, remains from other cargo, and impurities of any type.\nMarine mammal means an individual of a species of the orders Cetacea, Pinnipedia, or Sirenia, or a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) or sea otter (Enhydra lutris).\nNoncompatible means not capable of existing together in harmony.\nNonhuman primate means any nonhuman member of the order Primates.\nNormal rigors of transportation means the stress that a wild animal can be expected to experience as a result of exposure to unaccustomed surroundings, unfamiliar confinement, caging, unfamiliar sounds, motion, and other conditions commonly encountered during transport.\nPrimary enclosure means any structure used to restrict a mammal or bird to a limited amount of space, such as a cage, room, pen, run, stall, pool, or hutch.\nProfessionally accepted standards means a level of practice established as acceptable by a body of qualified persons of the veterinary medical profession.\nPsychological trauma means an episode of exposure to stressful conditions resulting in significant behavioral abnormality including, but not limited to, manifestations of unaccustomed aggressiveness, self-mutilation, or refusal of food or water.\nRaptor means a live migratory bird of the order Falconiformes or the order Strigiformes.\nSanitize means to make physically clean and, as far as possible, free of toxic or infectious agents injurious to the health of wild mammals or birds.\nScheduled departure time means the time listed on a timetable of departures and arrivals or, in the absence of a timetable, the time of departure agreed to by a carrier and shipper.\nShipper means any person, other than a carrier, involved in the transport of wild animals to the United States regardless of the purpose of such transport; e.g., exporter, importer, or agent.\nTerrestrial mammals means mammals other than marine mammals.\nTransport means to move, convey, carry, or ship by any means, or to deliver or receive for the purpose of movement, carriage, or shipment, by air, land, or sea.\nTransporting device means any vehicle or device used to transport an animal between a conveyance and a terminal facility, in and around a terminal facility of a carrier, or within a conveyance.\nUnweaned means a bird or mammal incapable of feeding itself independently.\nWild means the same as fish or wildlife, as defined in § 10.12 of this chapter.","path":["Title 50—Wildlife and Fisheries","CHAPTER I—UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR","SUBCHAPTER B—TAKING, POSSESSION, TRANSPORTATION, SALE, PURCHASE, BARTER, EXPORTATION, AND IMPORTATION OF WILDLIFE AND PLANTS","PART 14—IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION, AND TRANSPORTATION OF WILDLIFE","Subpart J—Standards for the Humane and Healthful Transport of Wild Mammals and Birds to the United States"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-50.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:39Z","sha256":"a073d6e9f323826598577e78e7c8e69c780cda55ddcd9020d7fc144909407f43","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/50-cfr-14.101","next":"us/50-cfr-14.103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}