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I Introduction
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... THE NEED 1. The Demand Factors that stimulate a demand for amphibians are their utility for current research problems, the increased cost of avian and mammalian research animals, and the increased use of lining material in high school and college instructional laboratories.
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... Informal surveys among herpetologists and others interested in amphibians suggest that in recent times American amphibian populations have decreased significantly. The best current data dealing with population reduction have been collected for British anurans (Cooke, 1972~.
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... b. Increasing efforts be made to develop the culture of amphibians, both for educational and research purposes.
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... -do exist and meet the criteria defined for laboratory-reared and laboratorybred animals; however, these have not attained the status of defined laboratory lines. For Rana pipiens efforts are now being made to establish laboratory lines (N.
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