Abstract
THE International Primatological Society1 and several recent publications2–8 have pointed out the urgent need for conservation of non-human primates. The capture of live primates for exportation is a major drain on natural populations and breeding programmes are a vital need which has been emphasised by two recent events. First, the Institute for Development of Renewable Natural Resources in Colombia has established limits and standards for the hunting of non-human primates9. Second, a large scale, international research project has been launched through a grant from the US National Institutes of Health to the Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources of the US National Academy of Sciences, which will tackle critical questions of supply and demand, and seek to identify primates which must be bred to meet research requirements10. (In 1969, 16,295 New World primates and 42,514 Old World primates were sold in the United States solely for research3.) We report here preliminary results of the first attempt at large scale, controlled breeding of New World primates in the natural habitat of an exporting country, and discuss the feasibility of future projects.
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BAILEY, R., BAKER, R., BROWN, D. et al. Progress of a breeding project for non-human primates in Colombia. Nature 248, 453–455 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/248453a0
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