It's time to return to
Tamarin, so we refill the tank - at a cost of PS2.77 - before driving home.
Caption: A zookeeper releases a golden lion
tamarin into the wild.
The investment in Cap
Tamarin is Vantage Capital's eighth transaction in Fund III -- a US$280 million fund.
The new Cotton-Top
Tamarins will be well looked after at Drayton Manor Park's 15-acre zoo, which is also home to an array of animals, including a cheeky Meerkat mob and two adorable Red Pandas.
Arthur and Maria are the first cotton-top
tamarins at Chester Zoo for over a decade.
In this sense, it appears that the distribution of the black
tamarin is delimited to the south by the large rivers and also the open vegetation and more seasonal climate of the Cerrado (Fig.
Mamma, the cotton-top
tamarin, |with her healthy twins
A group of cotton-top
tamarins were being studied to learn more about their use of human-directed mobbing calls, but scientists saw that when a disliked member of zoo staff entered their habitation, the primates communicated with each other using "low amplitude vocalizations," the Independent reported.
Cultural highlights: In a country as varied as Mauritius, cultural highlights are manifold and include the Red Roof Chapel in Cap Malheureux, Maheshwarnath Temple at Triolet Shival, the Victoria 1840 sugar cane factory and the Salt Pans at
Tamarin. Keep an eye out for sega performances--during Mauritius's national dance, the feet never leave the ground, making for some very interesting body moves.
The Golden-Handed
Tamarin has a life span of 7-16 years whereas the Cotton Top
Tamarin can live till 25 years in captivity but not more than 13-16 years in the wild.
When people play their funky music for cotton-top
tamarins, the monkeys hardly get their groove on.