This service is intended for situations where a performer or sponsor 
is unable to reutilize animals within its own programs. It is 
anticipated that the users' service will make it possible for most 
primates that are no longer needed by one scientist to be readily 
acquired by another. However, there will be occasions when such 
matching of offers with needs will not produce immediate results. 
In other words, it can be anticipated that animals may no longer be 
required within an institution but would be of potential value to 
other performers. This institution usually is not prepared to continue 
to bear the cost of keeping animals. Rather than allow the destruction 
of rare and valuable animals in such circumstances, they should be 
donated without restriction to the users’ service, which would provide 
for the financing of their care pending reassignment. 
Scientific studies frequently depend upon large numbers of samples to 
be of optimum research value. The collection of such samples of primate 
tissues and skeletal material is an expensive and time-consuming process, 
generally beyond the scope of individual researchers. The development 
of central repositories of such samples would not only be consistent 
with the concept of multiple use and ensure the most effective use 
of primates that might otherwise be lost, but also would greatly facili¬ 
tate and encourage these types of research endeavors. 
It is recommended that sponsors consider the development 
of central repositories of primate tissues and skeletal 
material, to be made available to the general research 
community as appropriate . 
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