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This website was created by Zachary Haas and Ryan Lenox as a joint-senior thesis project for the Psychobiology Program at Beaver
College. The website was formulated in hopes that it will be used as an informational and educational tool for learning about the highly endangered Bicolored Tamarin, Saguinus bicolor bicolor.
S. b. bicolor is considered one of the most endangered of the Amazonian primates because of considerable
habitat destruction within its restricted range, located around Manaus, which is probably the most rapidly growing city in the Brazilian Amazon (Egler, 1992). |
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This website was designed to facilitate interest in these endangered primates and encourage further exploration by fellow students and
researchers. In addition, this site will also serve as a means of communicating their status, both captive and wild. The content of
this website will provide information on general species identification, natural habitat, and status in the wild, as well as to include qualitative and quantitative research on captive bicolored tamarins, in order to
further more exploration on the possible behavioral differences between their captive environment and their restricted natural habitat. |
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The research made available on this website was completed by Beaver College students on captive groups of bicolored tamarins at the Philadelphia Zoo. With the cooperation of Dr. Andrew Baker, the Curator of Primates and Small
Animals at the Philadelphia Zoo, this site should serve as an updated source of detailed information about this particular Saguinus species. |
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This site welcomes any further information on the bicolored tamarin in captivity or in its natural habitat. Research from other zoos, pictures
of enclosures, and any information about this rare species as it occurs in the wild can be emailed to haasz12c@yahoo.com
or r_lenox@hotmail.com. |
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Thank you for visiting this website. We hope you find it as an effective means of learning or gaining further information about this beautiful
endangered species.
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