Table 5 (page 45) presents, by sponsor and national health need, the 
annual aggregate number, regardless of species, of all nonhuman primates 
required during the year 1977 to maintain the current level of activity. 
Requirements are stated as the number of new animals to be acquired via 
importation or from domestic breeding programs; they do not include 
breeding stock for proposed breeding programs. A primate requirement 
includes timed pregnancies, neonates, or other fetal material. This 
table is presented for comparative purposes, and it is not to imply that 
all primate species are of equal importance or necessarily interchangeable. 
The estimated numbers required are listed by national health need and 
species in Table 6 (page 46), and by sponsor and species in Table 7 
(page 47). The remaining tables array the requirements for each species 
by sponsor and national health need. 
The National Primate Plan has used this information as a foundation from 
which to present and justify recommended future action. It is recognized 
that these numbers represent the status quo and that actual needs will 
vary. Therefore, as an overall part of the plan, an assessment system 
has been proposed as a mechanism for the reappraisal of primate requirements 
over time as new information is generated. Chapter IV, Information 
Requirements and National Primate Program Monitoring, further discusses 
this mechanism. 
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