European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The shrinking world of the  Cotton top Tamarin by John Barbour associated press Mother nature int and fear makes a creature and when that piercing screech echoes through the its probably frightened Patrick reacting again but in reality the cry is As befits this frail Patrick his the Cotton top occupy Only six on thousandths of the earths sur not an awful lot to yet their province is this year Patrick and his excitable Fellows have made it to one of the least distinguished lists in this a kind of who almost int the red data Book of rare and endangered if Hes still is Only 25 inches Long and 15 inches of that is he weighs less than a Pound and a his offspring Are Only four inches but they Are the most important things in his the very nature of when one of them whether from a fall or other an adult might carry the dead infant around for a matter of instinct which in humans might be a matter of pal a 36yearold researcher at the University of California at Hopes to get Down to the slice of colombian Forest this summer to look up Patrick see How he and Bis cohorts Are not too Many people an interested in bul Shes lagged end observed the Cotton top Tama runs for a while now and charted the sometimes skimpy and dwindling forests in which they she wonders How Many there Are and whether they can survive the intrusions of men chopping Down Trees to farm the land and trapping these wee monkeys for zoos and Nedical these Peculiar Little Fellows have status in Cal ten to 14 per cent of them come Down naturally with cancer of the and there fore make interesting models for the study of Fiat so the Cotton top is not entirely useless to to nature no creature is each forming a part of the held Jigsaw Piile that is the natural environment of the is a special Reservoir of formed in this combination Over Lime in answer to the Spe Cial demands of this More than a town creatures were added to the list of 294 mammals and 312 Birds considered rare and others in this class of 1977 include the Mediterranean which is a Small version of a wild the Northern bottle nose the giant Sable the Argentine pampas Greys the sloth the whitefly the Iri Mote Cal and four kinds of Newman is devoting her attention to the they travel in groups of three to acting like a family even though they might not they jealously guard their tribal which might cover if acres filled with Trees and shrubs Ihal yield the and Fig like and peach like of Neil they they also feed on leaves and other to identify the members of Newman darted alphabetically with an a and gave the first member she  nor would so for her own convenience she eave them names that were compatible with her scientific All the Way to in Between somewhere was she saw Patrick carrying a dead infant around for h is the nature of the male to carry the Tobies on Pineir loping jaunts through the whatever the Marins think of other they Are most attentive to their ing raising the White Topknot that gives them their they break off the encounter from time to Lime to Check up on the babies in the tree where they have left them in youth is a fleeting thing among the at the age of one month the infants can walk around on their clawed at three months they arc totally at a year and a half a female can con although not always rarely is the Monkey seen by Man As other Lama ring see that Small Black coursed by White the Long Blac tipped the White belly the Brownish Are almost always seen by Man and other strangers in anger or so unsure of the world is dug it is rarely seen in its Placid it reacts to the Hawk overhead and the a weasel like creature Ihal stalks the Trees in which u somehow nature has old the Lamarn it is endangered Long before Man found probably 500 of the tamarins in Captivity in the United and the number in the Square Miles of forests it inhabits in Colombia is in what is known is that up to of them were exported in just 15 native colombians trap them and keep them As but the sight is not a pretty one tethered to a Post behind the fed an object of not the friendliest of men want to farm inc tropical Forest sin the andean Foothills where most of the tamarins the monkeys manage pretty Well even in secondary forests and scrub they need the Trees not Only for but for they manage to jump from Fence Post to Fence but that s not their native they have teamed to walk a Fine nature equipped them with claws and a tall that enables them to Tightrope a Vine less than half an Inch but when they Are they sometimes like All of natures creatures they sometimes dont gel up two Cotton top tamarins huddle nervously As of they know their species is july 1977 the stars and stripes 13