Novel survey method finds dramatic decline of wild cotton-top tamarin population

Anne Savage (), Len Thomas, Katherine A. Leighty, Luis H. Soto and Felix S. Medina
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Anne Savage: Disney's Animal Kingdom
Len Thomas: Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling and School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews
Katherine A. Leighty: Disney's Animal Kingdom
Luis H. Soto: Fundación Proyecto Tití, Carrera 56, no. 68-85, Barranquilla, Colombia.
Felix S. Medina: Fundación Proyecto Tití, Carrera 56, no. 68-85, Barranquilla, Colombia.

Nature Communications, 2010, vol. 1, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: For conservation purposes, accurate methods are required to track cotton-top tamarins in their natural habitat. As existing census methods are not appropriate for surveying these monkeys, a lure-transect method combined with playback vocalization was used here to allow accurate counting of the animals.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1030

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