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Once upon a time there were tamarins who lived at Carleton College. Their original US home was at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and most of the ones we studied and cared for came directly from Madison. Several other tamarins were accepted from other colleges or labs that could not sustain them, and we limited entry to those that also came from the original families and groupings in Madison.  This was to insure their background and health were known factors in our care and research.

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We insisted upon getting the medical and family background information for every tamarin we added to our colony, and U-Wi-Madison provided it. From that we could construct a "family tree" of the monkeys we studied.  See below, and explore. Their ancestry dates back to the early 1970's when some were wild-caught from Columbia, South America.

Family Tree of Our Tamarins

Family Tree (click to magnify):
Green tags are those who lived at Carleton!
White tags mean they are ancestors and they lived at U-Wisconsin-Madison.
Adjacent tags are siblings.
+ between tags means they were a mated pair. Arrows can indicate offspring that were presented at a distance because they became mates to someone else whose family is far away on the tree.
ORAU indicates origination was at Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
Some also came from Berkeley originally, or Germany, or Buffalo, or they were wild caught.
Only one couple, Richard and Ann, are of unknown origin (in the 1970's).

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