do you know this animal
if now it’s the marmoset but there’s a lot
people here in Colombia where no
I know the cotton-top tamarin does not
they have fame as the chimps of
that none but here in Colombia is a
very important animal
when I was 19 years old
I was a university student
wisconsin and I think I’m going to be
psychologist but one day I went with a
my teacher and he opened the door and
I see the face of those animals and I do not
I had that was I think it ‘s unique
I did not know that but you know one thing when
I see the face of these animals and the
eyes that look at me so much something happened my
life I said that as my curiosity
I want to know more about this animal
Then I changed everything
Now I said that I will not be
psychologist with children
I’m going to be studying marmosets
parents was furious
then my teacher told me
we are going to study these animals and for
the next four years
we are doing the first
studies of otitis in captivity but
one thing is very important that they
you know is that marmosets are in danger
of extinction
then he had a dilemma
I say that I am here in the city
March in wisconsin studying marmosets
but that is an animal in danger of
extinction where eleven is not in
danger of extinction
and in Colombia then if I want
help this animal touch me to go to
Colombia
then I was the first time family
Colombia in the year 87 and this was a
awesome experience
now colombia I felt like my second
home
I spent a lot of time here and
thanks to many people and I can pass
long time studying the marmosets in the
forest the thing that I want to tell you is
a very nice story about this animal
here
She is called tamara tamarin camera
this animal is 16 years old a
soul as small as it weighs only
400 grams and now they are 16 years old in
living in the forest
here in colombia and that is very rare
because animals normally night in
a day so long but thanks to tamara
and with his family
we have a lot of information
about marmosets or very marmosets
like us live in families
as we have a mom there is a dad
and the children and they spend all day
there in the forest eating and
resting and sometimes fighting
the thing is very interesting to the marmosets
and that he moms always have
twins the twins are born each time
year and babies are quite the
pcn babies like 15% breast weight
This is similar if I have two children
that weighs five kilos
one very difficult to take care of the silhouette
I hope the marmosets or very smart
the mother that I am not able to carry
these kids so giant and also
I can go find food and and take care of
others and those who are in my house do not
can do these things alone then
for the marmosets is something very cool
all family members help
to take care of babies like us
marmosets are not born with all the things that
they need to know to measure in the
forest babies do not know they are
good to eat do not know where you can
sleep but parents who teach
all like us then the marmosets
many fruits eat more than 90 ie
of fruit also eat insects and gums
but when babies are born and started
eat as is the way to learn
they watch their parents eat their
brothers and it’s something very funny because
when a marmoset has food in its hand
has some very special action
who said I have food and when the
babies listen is they come for
remove food and countries in 5
very happy, nothing is eating
then the marmosets are very similar
we also because this is very
common in families and nothing else
that is cool and the marmosets and
they have a language like us
they have more than 40 little shares and
they have vocalizations any
idea
then these are few actions
that said that I’m lost and those
it’s something I do not want that’s going to happen
the marmosets do not want us
here in Colombia I was going to lose that
species is something very important
all of us need to take care of their
marmosets if you are interested in knowing more
about the vocalizations the marmosets
we have a program where you can
learn to speak with a beat and with
great pleasure but the most important thing
is that these marmosets only live here in
Colombia can not find these
animals in forests in other countries in
the world only here this is your
natural heritage then touches that
take care of them
this is very important for the future of
all Colombians
then we have a very serious problem
the house of the marmosets that is the forest
almost no more than 95% of the
tropical forest have disappeared there is no
voice that is now a very serious problem
the second problem is that there are not many
marmosets in the year 60 colombia exported
more than 30,000 chalk the united states
for biomedical studies and now
there’s only less than 25 percent of
this amount of chalk who here in
Colombia
that’s something very serious almost no marmosets
here and this is the natural heritage
the other problem is that many people
like to have pitis as pets
I imagine that you here know
people who have marmosets and that’s something
fatal because of the spices because you know
These animals
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live in the forest with your family not with
the family of us I know that I
I have a lot of interest in caring and
keep the marmosets I’m super
powerful but the thing is that I do not
I am the only person who needs
caring for marmosets needs the help of
all this people here in colombia and
thank you we now have a team
amazing here that he was born here in
barranquilla and this is foundation
marmoset project that is led by
Rosa Miguel Guillen and these people are
working every day with
communities with children with many
people here in colombia for
keep these marmosets and that’s because
I have hope because now there is
people who want to keep marmosets no
only I have more people now that
has this interest but that is
necessary to save the marmoset that things
we need city
first you need to have people to value
nature
this is very important because if
you do not value these things who is going to
look after
we have programs in the communities
where children can have a
book is called antilles and this catiti a
they have a story about the marmoset
called titito marmoset and children can
learn life in usa have forest and
what is happening now in the forest and
that’s something very important because
you know a lot about these communities
children go to school and do not have
books but now they have their
first a book and this book has
impact because kids love
take this book to the house
is reading this with all members
from the family and neighbors , something else
that are very important is that the
children have the opportunity yesterday the
forest and look at the tees not only in
the book but now has the opportunity
and look at tamara tito and all the myths
that are over there and it’s a very impact
big
this change the attitude of many of
these children because now it’s something real
in life and they want to help you
another problem that we have is
this problem that many people
like to have the marmosets as a pet but
we know the marmosets are not
good for pets that animals are
good for pets
the dogs but many children there not
I think dogs are very good for
pets are stupid and these things
but we have this program called
friend where we teach the
young how to take care of their dogs and
also show how smart they are
the dogs because we teach the
kids to do tricks with their dogs
and now the children are thinking that in
these dogs that super cool and now
they do not want but I do not want to issue as
pets who dogs what other problem
is that he knows there is not much forest and
there are many communities that need
forest resources to survive
then we have programs for
help your communities to decrease
its impact on the forest
many of these people who cook with firewood
with three bankruptcies they use like 15 tomes
of firewood
every day is a lot
firewood and that’s a lot we all have a
program with bing is that it is a stove
who cook with much less line 5
Logs is a very enea thing
if nothing else is also we have
many problems when people are
making fences because many are cut
trees to make this case also
there are problems in the communities because
there’s no way to recycle garbage and
in many of these communities
there is a lot of contamination with bags
plastic with halo is plastic with
plastic bottles but we
we have a very interesting idea we are going to
collect all these plastics in these
communities with the people who live there
employ these people and we will
recycle this plastic and make a post
of plastic that is now called you
poles and these guys is now it’s very
good because the voice is saved
helps people in communities to
they do not live with so much pollution and
also people have jobs but
another thing is to look for opportunities to
work with these communities so that
is also produce their impact on the
forest
We have a group of artisans who are
super excellent these women now
is making stuffed marmosets like
is cute here and is the only one
we have programs where you are doing
backpacks and those backpacks are fine
Cute super cute but they are made
with plastic bags is called as
chila and they now have a lot of fame with
this program in their women won the
equatorial prize problem that this is
something very important
look at those books things if done in pure
plastic bags is nothing else is that
also these women are doing
very nice things that is now more to
part of a parade of jülich hasbún and
francisca miranda
so what an elegant thing that is
very girl is now with all this here
in Barranquilla we have people who
now he knows that he does not need to have marmosets
as pets there are communities that
now that they are looking for alternatives
to remove resources from the forest
but the most important thing and that is
something that you can also
help us is we need to keep
the marmosets and the forests that are here
in Colombia because there are not many things
is one of the things that is happening is
Titi project foundation in these
last four years is working
to conserve those forests
now we have three private reserves
for marmosets it ‘s a miracle to have this
for the animals and I am very
proud for that we have people who
is working we have children that
is also helping to heal and
we have this fabulous team of
foundation maritime project but from whom
it depends on saving the marmoset depends on me
Sure but it’s up to you
It depends
[Applause]
ashley
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