tamarin

By Luke Fannin. My fellow research assistants from this past summer will undoubtedly agree with me when I say that tamarins are incredibly flexible when it comes to their daily habits in the Amazon rainforest. Not only do they eat a wide variety of food...

miniJan 08 callitrichid, diet, Fannin, health, Interview, leucopus, parasite, Saguinus, soto-calderon, tamarin, urban No Comments

Amazing GRC

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Amazing GRC

This Monkey Has More Followers Than You By Ben Lybarger In a culture endlessly seeking likes, loves, and comments, it may come as a shock to many that a tiny, grizzled tamarin in the remote Amazon has most of us beat. To be sure, she doesn’t have any...

Ben LybargerSep 29 Amazon, Female, Peru, tamarin, wildlife No Comments

Tamarin Stakeout Leads to Big Surprise

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Tamarin Stakeout Leads to Big Surprise

The following is an excerpt from the journal of one of our research assistants, Alexandra Schaening, who is helping to trap tamarins in the field for disease screening. Today is Sunday June 21, 2015 I started a stakeout at trap 28 for emperor tamarins...

Ben LybargerJun 29 Field Assistants, guest post, puma, tamarin No Comments

The Chiky Basterd

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The Chiky Basterd

We've written about how we came to be foster parents to a young saddleback tamarin before, but here is the story, told a little differently...

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Sexing a primate

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Sexing a primate

This is a family-friendly blog, but you can’t introduce your kids to wildlife if they are squeamish about bottoms. We all have bottoms and to a biologist, knowing a bit about bottoms is a serious advantage! One can spend weeks attempting to correctly...

miniMar 03 flashback, Peru, reproduction, tamarin No Comments