Living for the City: Interview with Dr. Iván Soto-Calderón The white-footed tamarin (Sagunius leucopus). Image courtesy of Giant Eland. Staff Writer, 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. …
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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 social media accounts, and she has never …
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 and ended up with something much bigger. (dun dun DUNNNNNN) Two …
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…
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 sex all the individuals in a primate group, even with groups as …
These memories are from the very first time, the very first FPI member ever stepped into the rainforest…glorious beginner’s luck mostly!
