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Two cotton-top tamarian babies reunited at zoo
2:42 PM, Aug. 12, 2011
SALISBURY — The Salisbury Zoo is the first institution to successfully re-introduce a rejected infant Cotton-top Tamarian monkey with its family.The young-male was born in May and immediately rejected by his mother -- who embraced the other baby. The primates weight less than one pound and are considered on of the “world’s 25 most endangered primates.”
Zoo workers collaborated with the Cotton-top Tamarian Species Survival Program to hand raise and slowly reintroduce the primate. The family group is now living together 24 hours a day with separate nest boxes for sleeping
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2:42 PM, Aug. 12, 2011
SALISBURY — The Salisbury Zoo is the first institution to successfully re-introduce a rejected infant Cotton-top Tamarian monkey with its family.The young-male was born in May and immediately rejected by his mother -- who embraced the other baby. The primates weight less than one pound and are considered on of the “world’s 25 most endangered primates.”
Zoo workers collaborated with the Cotton-top Tamarian Species Survival Program to hand raise and slowly reintroduce the primate. The family group is now living together 24 hours a day with separate nest boxes for sleeping
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