Tamarin
Saguinus

NEWS

Recent news links for Saguinus

• Marmosets and tamarins: dwarfed monkeys of the South American tropics  (Scientific American; November 27, 2012)
• Compulsive Overeating: All the Addiction, None of the Street Cred  (The Atlantic; June 18, 2012)
• Harvard Halts Animal Research After Fourth Primate Death  (BioTechniques; March 5, 2012)
• Harvard vows changes after 4th monkey death  (Boston Globe; February 29, 2012)
• More than Just Pretty Faces  (Scientific American; January 16, 2012)
• Disgrace: On Marc Hauser  (The Nation; January 9, 2012)
• Program could boost primate numbers  (Delmarva Now; August 19, 2011)
• Golden-handed monkeys stolen from Doncaster garden  (BBC News; July 21, 2011)
• Paignton monkey, Didius, flown to New Zealand to breed  (BBC News; July 6, 2011)
• Competition between females leads to infanticide in some primates  (EurekaAlert; June 8, 2011)
• Misconduct found in Harvard animal morality prof's lab  (New Scientist; August 11, 2010)
• Altruism blossoms in tamarin monkeys, study shows  (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel; July 26, 2010)
• Mama wannabe monkey adopts baby of another species  (MSNBC; July 22, 2010)
• Hormone study finds monkeys in long-term relationship look strangely human  (University of Wisconsin-Madison News; July 12, 2010)
• Cat calls monkeys to their doom  (MSNBC; July 8, 2010)
• Rare pied tamarin monkey twins born at Colchester Zoo  (BBC; June 22, 2010)
• Rare monkeys returned to NSW park  (Sydney Morning Herald; June 3, 2010)
• Fears for rare monkeys stolen from enclosure  (ABC News, Australia; June 1, 2010)
• Monkeys Appreciate Monkey Music and Metallica  (Discovery News; September 1, 2009)
• Monkeys Display Verbal Skills  (Discovery News; July 7, 2009)
• New Monkey Discovered In Brazil -- Threatened By Proposed Dams And Other Development In Region  (ScienceDaily; July 7, 2009)
• After 30 years, tamarins ride off into retirement  (University of Wisconsin - Madison News; January 28, 2009)
• Thieves steal five rare monkeys from French zoo  (AFP; December 30, 2008)
• Veterinarians Adapt Human Tests For Monkeys  (ScienceDaily; August 7, 2008)
• The Wisconsin Experience: Psychology gets undergraduate research down to science  (University of Wisconsin - Madison News; February 28, 2008)
• Keepers save abandoned primates  (BBC News; January 16, 2008)
• Testing Monkeys - for Jealousy  (Harvard Crimson; December 13, 2007)
• Like Humans, Monkey See, Monkey Plan, Monkey Do  (ScienceDaily; December 6, 2007)
• Primates Expect Others To Act Rationally  (ScienceDaily; September 10, 2007)
• Nonhuman Primates Demonstrate Humanlike Reasoning  (Science; September 7, 2007)
• The Perception of Rational, Goal-Directed Action in Nonhuman Primates  (Science; September 7, 2007)
• Endangered monkey twins are born  (BBC News; February 28, 2007)
• Monkey is found in housing estate  (BBC News; August 31, 2006)
• Endangered primates born in Belfast  (BBC; July 4, 2006)
• Scientists discuss evolutionary roots of social behavior  (University of Wisconsin - Madison News; February 20, 2006)
• Researchers discover discrete region of the monkey brain that processes pitch  (News-Medical.Net; September 7, 2005)
• A Haven for Primates in Panama  (APS Observer, May-June, 2002)

CONSERVATION

Conservation Information for Saguinus

• Cotton-Tops at Roger Williams Park Zoo  

Conservation News for Saguinus

• Tiny primate 'punk' in danger of extinction  (PhysOrg; July 12, 2010)
• Photos: researchers uncover top priority areas for Bolivian primates  (Mongabay; June 28, 2010)
• Zoo's Care of Rare Monkeys Breeds Success  (RedOrbit; September 30, 2008)
• Conservationists Fight to Save Tiny Colombian Monkey  (National Geographic News; May 27, 2003)

General Primate Conservation

• Primate Conservation
• Primate Conservation in the News