Meet the National Zoo’s adorable new babies: two lesser kudu calves and one teensy golden-headed lion tamarin.
, on the other hand, stick together as a family from the very beginning. The new baby, born March 10, is the third surviving child born to parents Lola and Coco. “Interestingly, [the baby] is starting to jump off dad quite a bit,” Small Mammal House animal keeper Mariasays. “Just going on the branches next to the parents or next to the siblings and moving around, but it hasn’t started exploring the whole enclosure yet.
The baby’s twin siblings—born in October—are now “acting like teenagers,” while they welcome the newest addition to the family, says Montgomery. Once the new baby joined the family, the older kids had to stop hanging out on their parents’ backs. But in the last few weeks, the twins have started carrying their new sibling around, a practice thatThe whole tamarin family can be spotted in the Small Mammal House all day, and the twins are often very active inside the enclosure.
The twins will soon be climbing into the box for a milestone vet visit—around six months, golden-headed lion tamarins become mature enough for caretakers to see what sex they are. This may determine the tamarins’ future home, since they could eventually be sent to other zoos to help bolster breeding programs for the endangered species. “Habitat loss is a big deal,” Montgomery says of the species, which only live in one region in southern Brazil.
Sadly, the newest baby’s twin died about a week after its birth. When caretakers found the baby on the ground one morning, separate from its mother and sibling, they knew something was wrong. They immediately reunited the baby with the family and administered treatment, but ultimately there are a lot of reasons a tiny primate may not survive. “It’s probably harder on the keepers,”says. “Unfortunately, these things do happen. It’s not uncommon, especially early on.
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