Kansas City Zoo and Aquarium welcomes new cotton-top tamarins in new partnership
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City Zoo and Aquarium announced the birth of two cotton-top tamarins.
Mother Sarah and Father O’Brien welcomed the two family on May 19.
The veterinarian team will be able to identify the sex of the babies when they are old enough to explore on their own.
The Zoo is also introducing Wild Beginnings, a program sponsored by Saint Luke’s that celebrates “zooborns” at the KCZoo.
Saint Luke’s is a great sponsor for the KCZoo’s “zooborns” with 140 years of patient-centered maternity care.
This new partnership was celebrated on the Labor and Delivery floor at Saint Luke’s Hospital. Families were presented with Wild Beginnings onesies and tickets to the zoo.
Cotton-top tamarins are critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). They are natives to Colombia, and their population is on the decline due to deforestation.
The KCZoo is an accredited facility within the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) that participates in the Species Survival Plan to ensure a genetically diverse and stable population of cotton-top tamarins.
The babies can be seen in their habitat at the Sobela Ocean Aquarium.
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