like the center, techniques had to

like the center, techniques had to be developed as time passed. “It has just been in the last 20 to 30 years that the realization that there isn’t an endless supply of animals in nature, and that in fact nature is disappearing, has hit,” Morgan said. “Just as in America during our early history when nature was not high on the nation’s priority list, the developing countries are now where animals are disappearing. We hope to be able to breed those species for 200 to 250 years in the future when they can be introduced back into the wild.”

The process of introduction into the wild has already begun for the golden lion tamarins, a small monkey from Brazil. With over 200 tamarins bom at the Zoo and over 400 bom at the center, the breeding program for the tamarins has been highly successful. Some have been placed in a reserve in Brazil, and now the center is working with the Brazilian government to educate the people about the tamarin and its fight for survival.

Many studies have to be made in a system of trial and error when members of an exotic species are first brought to the center. In the case of the tamarins, the center’s researchers found that mothers were abandoning their young becuase of elaborate social behavior patterns. Researchers found that tamarins pair bond for life, or select a mate for life, and that females usually give birth to twdns.

After giving birth, the female tamarins at the center would not immediately abandon their young but eventually would. Young tamarins ride on the backs of their parents, and researchers discovered that in the wild the male tamarins had a definite responsibility to step in at a certain point and help the females carry the young. Without help, the females had to abandon the young when-they became too big for the mother to handle. Researchers then had to work on training the males to help carry the young.

The center’s researchers also had to design the areas for the va