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Tiny primate 'punk' in danger of extinction.
Wednesday 30 June 2010
A tiny, charismatic Colombian primate known for its distinctive punk-rock hairstyle, is in imminent danger of extinction, according to new population figures.
New research has revealed that numbers of the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin have drastically decreased over the last forty years.
The latest study, carried out in Colombia with methods created by researchers at the University of St Andrews, estimates that there are just over seven thousand of the species left in the wild.