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Table II. — Partial Information On Species Presently Available And Most Commonly Used For Experimentation 
NEW WORLD MONKEYS 
Animal 
Habitat 
Supply 
Remarks 
Squirrel monkey 
(Saimiri sciurcus) 
Upper Amazon 
MQT— 21 days 
Intermittent April/August 
under 1 lb— $30 
over 1% lbs— $45 
Subject to transportation 
stress. Carries herpes 
saimirii virus which is 
carcinogenic in other species. 
Capuchin 
(Ccbns albifrons) 
Paraquay 
MQT— 23 days 
Large animals are scarce 
2—4 lbs.— $60 
over 4 lbs.— $70 
Susceptible to genital 
herpes virus 
Spider monkey 
(Ateles ■paniacus) 
Amazon Basin 
MQT— 35 days 
Scarce. On request 
Phylogeny 
Transportation 
Viral studies 
Marmosets 
(Callithrix sp.) 
Brazil 
Extremely variable 
some species are 
endangered and embargoed 
Special husbandry methods 
ASIAN 
MONKEYS 
Rhesus monkey 
(Macaca mtdatta) 
1 ) India & Pakistan 
2) Formosa & Thailand 
MQT— 42 days 
Excellent up to 6 kg. 
about $100 
Pregnant female $125 
NIH certificate of need 
required for India monkeys 
Most widely used primate 
Carries monkey "B" virus, 
and SV40 virus. Aggressive 
Stumptail 
(Macaca spcciosa) 
Pigtail macaque 
(Macaca ncmestrina) 
Malaya & Thailand 
MQT— 42 days 
Good, 4-8 kg. about $125 
Larget than rhesus 
less aggressive and easier 
to handle 
Cynomolgus macaque 
(crab eating monkey) 
(Macaca fascicularis) 
Philippines & Malaya 
MQT— 35 days 
Good up to 3.5 kg. 
about $75. 
Pregnant female— $85 
Year round supply. 
AFRICAN MONKEYS 
Baboon 
(Papio sp.) 
Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia 
MQT— 28 days 
Excellent to present 
Females up to 15 kg. 
Males up to 18 kg. 
about $150 
Largest monkey. Hardy. 
No "B" virus. Excellent 
surgical candidate for 
liver, biliary tract, 
portal system, placen- 
tation, lung and kidney 
transplantation, infectious 
disease, reproduction. 
Gelada baboon 
(Theropithecus gelada) 
Ethiopia 
MQT— 28 days 
Available on request 
about $150 
Transplantation; 
xenografting with baboons 
African green 
(Cercopithecus aethiops) 
Central & South Africa 
MQT— 28 days 
Good supply of small animals. 
Females up to 3.5 kg. 
Males up to 5 kg. 
about $75 
Tissue culture 
Production of polimyelitis 
vaccine. 
*Marburg agent epidemic 
Patas monkey 
(Erythrocebus patas) 
West Africa 
MQT— 35 days 
Variable 
Females up to 7 kg. 
Males up to 10 kg. 
about $125 
Infectious disease 
Behavior studies 
ANTHROPOID APES 
Chimpanzee 
(Pa7i troglodytes) 
West Africa 
Diminishing, Potentially 
Endangered 
Immunologically and 
physiologically closest 
to man. 
MQT— 60 days 
about $600/juvenile 
Blood grouping, infectious 
diseases, (viruses, bacteria, 
parasites), reproduction, 
transplantation 
Gorilla 
(Gorilla gorilla) 
Central Africa 
Diminishing, endangered, 
too difficut to handle 
for routine use 
Phylogeny 
Orangutan 
(Pongo pygmacus) 
Borneo & Sumatra 
Endangered, embargoed 
Phylogeny 
Gibbon 
(Hylobates lav sp.) 
Southeast Asia 
Potentially endangered, 
scarce 
Phylogeny and infectious disease 
