Green and the CPI further noted another exploit of the ESA in their discussion of the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus). Not only had they found documentation that 151 of these primates had inadvertently made their way from the Harvard-affiliated New England Regional Primate Research Center into the exotic pet trade through the aforementioned loophole, but in October 1976, over 800 cotton-top tamarins were imported into the United States in order to beat the official listing of the species under the ESA.
1976 లో ఈ ప్రైమేట్ వర్గీకరణను ఎన్డేంజర్ గా ప్రభావితం చేసిన ఏమి జరిగింది?
over 800 cotton-top tamarins were imported into the United States