Here is a quick update: Alice the cotton-top Tamarin died at the end of last year.Does anyone else have any updates?
Where is Uncas (?), the male living now then? It may interest you, but I visited Monkey World's centre in Vietnam a few weeks ago, Dao Tien. It was an amazing experience to see what Jim and Alison helped set up and how its doing now. We had a really great tour and saw a large number of golden cheeked gibbons, a few semi-wild ones too. The pet trade is quite serious there, we saw many monkeys in cages around the place, so sad.
That's very interesting, I do think it is an impressive acheivement. I'd love to go one day... eventually...
How are the Woolly monkeys doing at Monkey World - howmany do they have, which subspecies and any recent births ?
OMG wow id lover to go to Vietnam! The last wooly births were Sara who had bueno junior and is being hand reared.And Xingu had a baby which died a few days later. I have no idea if any are pregnant at the moment.
The woolley monkeys do very well at Monkey World, They have 3 breeding groups with pretty regular births and probably about 20 animals in total, more possibly as they took some from Twycross. They are now onto the second generation with the birth of a boy to Lena who was born there. They don't seem to differentiate between sub-species when breeding which has always puzzled me.
Thanks for the Woolly monkey information ! About the subspecies : also at Apenheul - the Netherlands ( another very succesfull Woolly monkey-breeder ) the subspecies are mixed, I guess to few specimens are avaible to make up pure groups ;(
I think Vogelcommando has it right- there are too few available for breeding to allow them to differentiate subspecies, so they just have to overlook them.
Yes, in a talk last year Alison Cronin said that there are insufficient left in captivity to keep breeding many more generations and that really we are just learning about them and the husbandry so that this knowledge could be used for insitu projects in future if such need/opportunity arose. Historically of course they did very badly in captivity.
