Sentences with phrase «black lion tamarins»

A tantalizing solution was to take advantage of the 100 or more captive black lion tamarins in zoos and primate centers.

Padua and his team captured a family of black lion tamarins in the Rio Claro Farm (a forest managed by the timber company Duratex) and moved them to forest where black lion tamarins formerly lived.

The number of black lion tamarins in the wild had fallen to fewer than 1,000, with most isolated fragments hosting well under 100 monkeys.

The black lion tamarin recovery team had learned that the animals could adjust to the new forest, even if the insects there tasted a little different or the trees were a slightly different size.

No one saw a black lion tamarin again in the wild until 1970, when the great Brazilian primatologist Adelmar Coimbra - Filho came across a tamarin family in a little reserve in the far western corner of São Paulo State.

Few creatures on Earth are as cute as the black lion tamarin, and few have as dramatic a story line.