Weve successfully hand reared golden lion tamarin twins

Its been a long and rewarding journey to get the twins, female Aurora and male Raffino, to this point and has required the considerable skill, passion and commitment of our primate and vet teams. As Primate team leader Amy explains, the decision to handrear is never taken lightly as there are always risks involved. Our primate keepers used their expertise, coupled with the best science and the knowledge that the twins would have each other to bond with, to make this decision and without it these critically endangered twins would have simply not survived. Filmed over the past three and a half months, we put our primate teams mahi on show as they go from feeding the twins around the clock, to weaning them off of milk and onto solid foods like delicious mango, the successful integration with their parents Alonzo and Frida, and finally, welcoming the family unit into their Rainforest habitat Were now one of the few places in the world that can proudly say weve successfully handreared golden lion tam