Mogo Wildlife Park Red handed tamarins?????

[Danale]

a few years ago on the old old mogo zoo website thay had listed red handed tamarins -??????

can anyone tell me more ???

cheers

 

[patrick]

i think they only had one and it has since died.....only one in australia. i think

 

[Faraji]

Yes, they actually had two - the only ones in Australia- but they both died over the years from old age.

 

[tetrapod]

Mogo's red-handed tamarins were the remnants of a successful breeding group that came from Perth Zoo - last at Perth mid '90s. The original animals (probably a pair, but don't quote me on it) came from Scansen (spelling isn't correct) in Sweden.

Interestingly they proved to be very aggressive towards cotton-tops when mixed in a walk-through enclosure. One of the keepers involved at the time told me that it was akin to 'hunting'.