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个 国际合作研究行为生态学 和社会生物学的Leontopithecus罗萨利亚，以保护一个 生物多样性的很大一部分仍然存在于 巴西的大西洋森林 大西洋海岸森林 南美洲任何地方的最高水平。 之间 除了几种特有的灵长类动物外， 地球上其他地方没有的天然物种。 黄金 狮绢毛猴就是其中之一。 毛蜘蛛（muriqui） 猴子（Brachyteles）是另一种。 他们能活下来 迪茨正在那里学习的预备队，比如波科-达-安塔斯。 该项目在灵长类动物研究中是独一无二的，因为不仅仅是一个 受到监测的团体为数不多。 知识 他们的社会行为将使他们的能力得到提高， 成功地将剩下的几只个体圈养起来。 一般来说，绢毛猴的交配系统是最重要的 任何灵长类动物的复合体。 许多人的详细研究 组，使用标记的单独识别的动物，其 基因结构将通过DNA指纹图谱来了解， 仍然是最好的和最彻底的研究变量 任何绢毛猴的社会系统。 让这些稀有动物存活下来 在野外，取决于（1）保持他们的栖息地，（2）知道 它们的社会结构、行为和生态（3）遗传的 管理剩余的个人，（4）成功的 将圈养物种重新引入野外。 已经这么 该项目使野生绢毛猴的数量增加了25- 百分之三十|拟议研究的基础设施包括 培训巴西学生，设施建设，培训 保护区的巴西管理人员和警卫， 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.