Despite their name, these rare primates have far more in common with their monkey relatives than any feline. The golden lion tamarin forms social family groups. Males help to raise their offspring ...

The golden lion tamarin stands as a beacon of hope and survival ... with local conservationists playing a pivotal role in monitoring the monkeys. (Andréia speaking Portuguese) (tamarins chirping ...

The zoo said the infant will remain exclusively attached to its parents for the first few months of its life A rare golden lion tamarin monkey has been born at Bristol Zoo. The baby primate was ...

Golden lion tamarins are small monkeys with long tails and copper-colored fur that live in family groups led by a mated pair. Usually, they give birth annually to twins, which all family members ...

Following 30 years of work to save one of the world's most endangered primates, IUCN - The World Conservation Union today announced that the golden lion tamarin is no longer critically endangered.

Zookeepers have welcomed the arrival of twin golden lion tamarins. The infants ... breeding programme to safeguard the future of the monkeys. Ms Bugg said: "Both Missy and Dourado have been ...

Join a world-class effort to save tamarins from the brink of extinction in Brazil’s most critically important forest. Seeing a family of golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) in the mystical ...

Scout and Fiona, a pair of two-toed sloths, and a troop of marmosets enjoyed a pumpkin party in their habitat at the zoo on Oct. 29.

Biologist Carlos Ruiz has spent a quarter-century working to save golden lion tamarins, the charismatic long-maned monkeys native to Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Thanks to painstaking reforestation ...

Only 6,000 golden headed lion tamarins remain in the wild ... They can communicate with Weids marmosets, allowing the two monkey families to work together as they travel. The lion tamarins ...