The Role of Kinship in the Behavioral and Social Organization of Communal Breeding Primates

金狮绢毛猴保护项目是一项国际合作项目，旨在研究巴西Leontopithecus rosalia的行为生态学和社会生物学，以保护巴西大西洋森林中剩余的大部分生物多样性。大西洋沿岸森林是南美洲任何地方特有程度最高的。在灵长类动物中，除了几种特有物种外，还有两属是地球上其他地方没有的自然物种。金狮绢毛猴就是其中之一。ıThe muriqui，或毛茸茸的蜘蛛猴（Brachyteles）是另一个。它们之所以能存活下来，是因为迪茨正在进行研究的Poco da Antas等保护区。这个项目在灵长类动物研究中是独一无二的，因为不仅有几个，而且有大量的群体正在被监测。了解它们的社会行为将有助于提高成功圈养剩下的少数个体的能力。一般来说，绢毛猴的交配系统是灵长类动物中最复杂的。对许多种群的详细研究，使用标记的单独识别的动物，其遗传结构将通过DNA指纹识别来了解，将继续是对任何绢毛猴可变社会系统的最好和最彻底的研究。让这些珍稀动物在野外生存取决于(1)维持它们的栖息地；(2)了解它们的社会结构、行为和生态；(3)对剩余个体进行遗传管理；(4)成功地将圈养物种重新引入野外。该项目已经使野生绢毛猴的数量增加了25- 30%。拟议研究的基础设施包括培训巴西学生、建设设施、培训保护区的巴西管理人员和警卫，以及改善当地社区的保护伦理。

The Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Project is an international collaborative effort to study the behavior ecology and sociobiology of Leontopithecus rosalia, to conserve a significant portion of the biodiversity remaining tin the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. The Atlantic Coastal Forest has the highest level of endemism of any part of South America. Among primates there are, in addition to several endemic species, tow genera that occur naturally no where else on earth. The golden lion tamarin is one of these. ıThe muriqui, or woolly spider monkey (Brachyteles) is the other.! They only survive because of Reserves such as Poco da Antas where Dietz is doing his study. The project is unique among primate studies because not just a few, but a large number of groups are being monitored. Knowledge of their social behavior will allow an improved capability of keeping the remaining few individuals successfully in captivity. The mating system of tamarins, generally, is among the most complex of any group of primates. The detailed study of many groups, using marked individually identified animals, whose genetic structure will be known through DNA fingerprinting, will continue to be the best and most thorough study of the variable social system of any tamarin. Keeping these rare animals alive in the wild depends on (1) maintaining their habitat, (2) knowing their social structure, behavior, and ecology (3) genetic management of remaining individuals, and (4) successful reintroduction of captive species into the wild. Already this project has increased the number of tamarins in the wild by 25- 30%| The infrastructure of the proposed research includes training Brazilian students, construction of facilities, training of Brazilian administrators and guards in the Reserve, and improvement of the conservation ethic of local communities.