«This is one I felt we could get closer to the animal equivalent than other categories.» (fortune.com)
Wild animals are not owed citizenship rights but should be regarded as members of sovereign communities and granted the animal equivalent of universal human rights. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
Marta Monteiro and colleagues at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, studied mice protected from the animal equivalent of multiple sclerosis by natural killer T - cells (NKT), a class of white blood cell which helps to control the immune system. (newscientist.com)