Protection measures implemented
- The cotton-top marmosets are now protected by international law.
- They are also now more protected in captivity, but are still critically endangered in the wild.
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Of the three types of tamarins, the cotton-top marmoset can be distinguished by its bare face. It is on average 9 inches tall and is covered with red, brown, gray and white hair over most of its body. The tamarin has claw-like nails that aid it in clinging, running and leaping. Tamarins are social creatures that are very vocal within their like-species groups that they live closely around.
AUTHORS
Dara-Michelle Farr
Erica McCormick
Maria Kovell
Erica McCormick
Maria Kovell
http://www.mnzoo.org/conservation/conservation_grant_tamarin.asp
Of the three types of tamarins, the cotton-top marmoset can be distinguished by its bare face. It is on average 9 inches tall and is covered with red, brown, gray and white hair over most of its body. The tamarin has claw-like nails that aid it in clinging, running and leaping. Tamarins are social creatures that are very vocal within their like-species groups that they live closely around.
Meet the Cotton-top tamarin
What do you think the prognosis for survival of the Cotton-top tamarin is?
REFERENCES
Cheverud, J., Tradif, S., and Henke, M. 1993. Genetic epidemiology of colon cancer in the cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus). Human Biology 65, 1005-10012.
Hutchison, D. and Cheverud, J. 1995. Fluctuating symmetry in tamarin (Saguinus) cranial morphology: intra- and interspecific comparisons between taxa with varying levels of genetic heterozygosity. The Journal of Heredity 86: 280-288.
Leong KM, Terrell SP, Savage A, 2004. Causes of mortality in captive Cotton-top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). ZOO BIOLOGY 2: Vol. 23. 127-137.
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/cotton-top_tamarin
http://www.durrell.org/Animals/Mammals/Cottontop-tamarin/
Hutchison, D. and Cheverud, J. 1995. Fluctuating symmetry in tamarin (Saguinus) cranial morphology: intra- and interspecific comparisons between taxa with varying levels of genetic heterozygosity. The Journal of Heredity 86: 280-288.
Leong KM, Terrell SP, Savage A, 2004. Causes of mortality in captive Cotton-top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). ZOO BIOLOGY 2: Vol. 23. 127-137.
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/cotton-top_tamarin
http://www.durrell.org/Animals/Mammals/Cottontop-tamarin/
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