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Coppery Titi

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Small Mammal House
3/14/2016
Are you sure this isn't Dusky Titi, Callicebus moloch? The zoo held/holds the species in Amazonia and I've only ever heard of Coppery Titi, Callicebus cupreus, being held in Europe.

~Thylo:cool:
 
It was signed as coppery, and I think I took a picture of the sign. When I get home, I'll check for scientific name.
 
To resolve the argument on both of these threads:

The titi in both this picture, and the other one that's been linked to this thread, is C. cupreus. ISIS had the National Zoo's titis identified as moloch, but the New World Primate TAG is confident that they are cupreus. Any titis that are not donacophilus (white-eared) are going to be cupreus.
 
To resolve the argument on both of these threads:

The titi in both this picture, and the other one that's been linked to this thread, is C. cupreus. ISIS had the National Zoo's titis identified as moloch, but the New World Primate TAG is confident that they are cupreus. Any titis that are not donacophilus (white-eared) are going to be cupreus.

Thank you for clearing that up. May I ask where you got this info. from?

~Thylo:cool:
 
Thank you for clearing that up. May I ask where you got this info. from?

~Thylo:cool:

2009 New World Primate TAG RCP. So the information is from a few years ago, but I haven't heard of anything new that has come to light so I assume it's still accurate.

http://alouattasen.weebly.com/uploads/8/9/5/6/8956452/rcp_newworldprimate20092-b9f1a7b6.pdf

Additionally, the colony at UC Davis was once classified as moloch as well, but they changed their identification to cupreus. So I'm unsure if there are or ever was moloch in the US.
 
2009 New World Primate TAG RCP. So the information is from a few years ago, but I haven't heard of anything new that has come to light so I assume it's still accurate.

http://alouattasen.weebly.com/uploads/8/9/5/6/8956452/rcp_newworldprimate20092-b9f1a7b6.pdf

UC Davis and the San Antonio Zoo both karyotyped their animals, and they matched up with cupreus but not moloch or brunneus. The ones at San Antonio were directly descended from the ones at the National Zoo, and the UC Davis colony is descended from the same founding group.
 
That's very interesting. I last visited in 2012 and then they still claimed they had moloch. Thank you for the information.

~Thylo:cool:
 

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