10% of their diet is prey including insects and frogs. Only 6,000 golden headed lion tamarins remain in the wild. Their decline is a result of severe habitat loss and climate change that decreases ...

Lion tamarins take their name from their impressive manes—thick rings of hair reminiscent of Africa's great cats. The golden lion tamarin may be the most beautiful of the four lion tamarin species.

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.

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 ...

On Thursday, March 7, The Beardsley Zoo, located in the Fairfield County city of Bridgeport, announced the death of Cricket, a 6-year-old golden lion tamarin. Acc… Daily Voice Tolland County CT ...

Luís Paulo Ferraz, executive director of the Golden Lion Tamarin Association ... “We leave from Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday morning and head down to Punta del Este, to Uruguay, and start ...

Two golden lion tamarin twins and a critically endangered gentle lemur are among the latest newborns at the central London attraction. Daniel Simmonds, zoological operations manager, said ...

BRIDGEPORT, CT(WFSB) – Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo announced that a tamarin died on Thursday morning. Cricket, a female golden lion tamarin, was six years old when she died after a failed birth.

A group of golden lion tamarins are seen in a tree during an observation tour at a private partner property of the golden lion tamarin ecological park in the Atlantic Forest region of Silva Jardim ...

Golden lion tamarins were once classified as critically ... but the joey had only been seen poking its head out of mum Nora’s pouch. West Midlands Safari Park counts up its creatures, including ...