Loro Parque opens the summer season with two new Red-handed tamarin (sanguinus Midas) pups, that proceed from a twin birth, as it is usual in the births of this species. The two new youngs are developing well, are healthy and strong and they can be seen clinging with their “hands” at the back of their parents. A very symphatic image to see them jumping from branch to branch. For the parents of these two little mammals it is the first time, but they behave as highly experienced marmosets parents, as they share the care of the youngs and the father passes them to the mother for their alimentation. On the other side, the keepers and veterinarians have carefully observed the whole process of gestation, difficult to see due
to the small size of these mammals, their abundant pelage and their restless nature.
This family shares its habitat with two-toed sloths and green iguanas, with the aim to offer to the visitors a complete picture of a subtropical ecosystem with a lush vegetation. The alimentation of the parents has been reinforced with extra vitamins and minerals to balance the wastage of the upbringing, which supplements their daily diet of fresh fruits, vegetables, roasted maize meal, porridge, honey, eggs and insects. The species of Red-handed tamarin, native from the Amazon (Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela), is named after the King Midas who was granted with the powder to turn into gold everything he touched – is part of the European breeding program ESB, the most intensive in terms of species management that live in zoos.
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Erstellt am: 30.06.2014 12:34 Uhr