Communication between cotton-top tamarins is sophisticated and shows evidence of grammatical structure, a language feature that must be acquired.
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15 Facts About Cotton-top tamarins
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Up to 40,000 cotton-top tamarins are thought to have been caught and exported for use in biomedical research before 1976, when CITES gave them the highest level of protection and all international commercial trade was prohibited.
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Cotton-top tamarins classified Geoffroy's tamarin S geoffroyi as a subspecies of S oedipus.
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Cotton-top tamarins tamarin has a long sagittal crest, consisting of white hairs, from forehead to nape flowing over the shoulders.
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Cotton-top tamarins tamarin has fur covering all of the body except the palms of the hands and feet, the eyelids, the borders of the nostrils, the nipples, the anus, and the penis.
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Cotton-top tamarins tamarin is found in both primary and secondary forests, from humid tropical forests in the south of its range to tropical dry forests in the north.
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Cotton-top tamarins tamarin has a diet of mainly fruit and animal material.
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Cotton-top tamarins tamarin is diurnal and sleeps with its social group in trees with foliage cover.
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Cooperative breeding hypothesis predicts that cotton-top tamarins engage with this young-rearing paradigm, and in turn, naturally embrace patterns of prosocial behavior.
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That is, cooperation in cotton-top tamarins can be better described by mutualism than by true altruism.
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Scent-marking in cotton-top tamarins is done in two ways: either using anogenital scent-marking, or suprapubic scent-marking.
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However, researchers argue that young cotton-top tamarins are able to represent semantic information regardless of immature speech production.
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Cotton-top tamarins tamarin makes selective, specialized vocalizations in the presence of food.
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Cotton-top tamarins tamarin is seen to produce food calls both in the presence and absence of group members.
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