AR-News: (US WI) Endangered tamarins on exhibit at NEW Zoo

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 http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_16294593.shtml 

Green Bay Press-Gazette
Posted May 28, 2004 




Press-Gazette 
SUAMICO — The NEW Zoo announced the arrival of two cotton-top tamarins. 
Adria, a 12-year-old female; and Calloway, a 16-year-old male, arrived from 
the Dallas World Aquarium on Tuesday. The lively pair already is on exhibit and 
can be viewed by visitors at the Riley Building in the zoo. 
Cotton-top tamarins are considered endangered with only 2,000 to 3,000 
remaining in the wild. Tamarins live in treetops of tropical rainforests in the 
northwest region of Colombia in South American. 
They are among the smallest of the New World monkeys, weighing in at only 1 
to 1½ pounds with a body length of about 8 inches. 
Cotton-top tamarins are the only primates that spontaneously develop colon 
cancer in captivity. Therefore, they are important models in the biomedical 
community for cancer research. 
         

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