GEN -CNN on monkey release

[GINNY MCKEE <GINNYME@DSL.RHILINET.GOV>]

CNN's "Science and Technology Week" show will highlight the release
of the cotton-top tamarins at the Roger Williams Park Zoo [Providence,
Rhode Island] and the work of Dr. Anne Savage in Columbia.  The program
will air on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 11 a.m. and Sunday Sept. 17 at
4 p.m.  In addition, the story will be released [Sept 19] to CNN
Headline News, CNN International Edition and CNN Airport News.
We at the Zoo are very excited about this since many of us were
cotton-top trackers over the summer.  From 6 in the morning when they
generally got up and out [of their nesting box in the trees] until
6 or later when they retired for the night, we watched and observed
what happened.  They scampered about on the lemur cages and went down
on the "tamarin trail" [what had been the dinosaur trail in previous
years].  They called back and forth and loved to follow the lemur
keeper when she came to feed.
Anne works with the cotton-tops in Columbia - using the same radio
collars and the punk rock hair [Redkin product].  These little monkeys,
they are 6 inches high and weigh about one pound, are very endangered
animals.  While the golden lion tamarins can be re-released into the
wild, the cotton-tops cannot and it is important to find ways to help
them survive.
Visitors learned what it is like to try to spot a tiny monkey in the
trees and to learn to tell them apart...so when you collect samples
from them, they can be correctly labeled.
The New York Times carried a story on Anne [Tuesday, Sept 13, 1994 -
C1 Science Times section] and our local paper did several features.
If you or your students have any questions, I will happily forward
them to Anne.
Ginny McKee     Chief of Children's Services
                Providence Public Library
and Zoo Docent  Roger Williams Park Zoo
   ginnyme@dsl.rhilinet.gov