#tamarin monkeys

[twihard28]

no because seriously what is going on at the dallas zoo??!! the monkeys have been found but ?!who steals monkeys?!!

[rjzimmerman]

Keepers at the National Zoo (Smithsonian) worked with breeding parents Lola and Coco, who soon “become very interested in each other”

[fablesoffantasy]

Okay, now I adore Girven's face claim as is. HOWEVER, I recently discovered the existence of Cotton-Top Tamarin and...

They're so adorable Hello?

I don't know what it is about them, but they kind of scream Girven to me. The awesome thing about Tamarin is that not only are they small beans, they're all so unique! If not a cotton-top Tamarin, then I could definitely see Girven as a golden-headed lion Tamarin

With a change in coloration to match his current brown and bits of white, of course.

I'm going to let you guys vote

A. Keep the current face claim (Pinto from Maleficent 2)

B. Change it!

[nowthisnews]

Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan, just welcomed two new cotton-top tamarin monkeys, which are critically endangered. There are only about 6,000 cotton-top tamarins left in the wild due to deforestation in Colombia 🐒

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[lioninsunheart]

Moustached Emperor Tamarin -southwest Amazon Basin, in east Peru, north Bolivia and in the west Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas-Photo by Peter Orr.

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[lioninsunheart]

Golden Lion Tamarin - he Golden Lion Tamarin, also known as the Golden Marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the golden lion tamarin is an endangered species.

“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” 

-Yoda-

[fartmastergeneral]

Breaking: the Dallas Zoo’s missing tamarin monkeys have been located inside a box of classified documents

[rjzimmerman]

One of the world’s most spectacular primates has become a symbol of conservation in Brazil, where an overpass is being built over a major highway to keep the species going.

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

The golden lion tamarin, one of the world’s most charismatic primates, has a dark face that can look inquisitive, challenging, almost human, framed in an extravagant russet mane.

The endangered New World monkey weighs less than two pounds. It lives only in Brazil, and only in the Atlantic coastal forest there. Tamarins spend their time high in the trees, up to 100 feet off the ground, in small groups of up to eight or so animals, with one breeding pair among each group.

They sleep at night and are active in the day, eating anything they can get their hands on — fruits, insects, small reptiles and amphibians. They have a life span of about eight years.

Deforestation, agriculture and development destroyed much of its habitat, as the pet trade continued into the 20th century. By the 1970s, only about 200 animals survived.

The population had reached 3,700 in the wild, according to Luis Paulo Ferraz, the director of the association, but suffered its first population decline last year, when yellow fever killed hundreds of the tiny monkeys.

Today there are about 2,500 tamarins living in about five million acres of forest. But only some of those forest acres are connected. In 2018, the largest block of connected land was less than 70,000 acres with less than 300 animals.

One challenge to getting connected areas was the widening of a major coastal highway, BR-101, which cuts through large chunks of Atlantic forest. The improvement of the highway created a barrier that isolated several forest areas and their more than 700 tamarins from three other large forest fragments.

After negotiations and lawsuits, the conservationists managed to get the construction company to agree to build and pay for a forested overpass for animals, the first in Brazil, with a tunnel and forest canopy connections, to enable the tamarins and other animals to pass from one side to the other. The overpass is now nearing completion and should be done this year, Mr. Ferraz said.