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

金狮罗萨林保护项目是一个国际合作项目，旨在研究狮子座罗萨利亚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相当大一部分生物多样性。大西洋海岸森林的地方性是南美洲所有地区中最高的。在灵长类动物中，除了几个特有物种外，还有两个属，它们是地球上其他地方没有的自然存在的。金狮罗兰就是其中之一。另一种是毛蜘蛛猴(ı)。它们之所以存活下来，是因为有像Poco da Antas这样的保护区，Dietz就是在那里进行研究的。该项目在灵长类动物研究中是独一无二的，因为不仅是少数几个，而是大量的群体正在受到监测。对它们的社会行为的了解将有助于提高将剩余少数个体成功囚禁的能力。一般来说，罗望鱼的交配系统是所有灵长类动物中最复杂的。对许多群体的详细研究，使用标记的单独识别的动物，其遗传结构将通过DNA指纹获得，这将继续是对任何罗望子的可变社会系统的最好和最彻底的研究。维持这些珍稀动物在野外的生存有赖于(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，以及(4)成功地将圈养物种重新引入野外。该项目已经将野生罗望子鱼的数量增加了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道德。

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.