1. The Golden Lion Tamarin Comes Home

2. Background

4. Time to Practice!

5. Key Vocabulary canopy habitat captive humid dilemma observation
extinction
genes
habitat
humid
observation
predators
reintroduction

6. Strategy Focus
As you read, monitor your understanding of how people are to help the golden lion tamarin. If necessary, reread or read ahead to clarify.

7. Time to read!
Open your reading text books to page #629

8. Wrapping Up Day 1
1. How do you think scientists in Washington, D.C. use the notes from Brazilian observers?
2. Why do you think the tamarins are first placed in cages when they reach the
Brazilian preserve?

9. Wrapping Up Day 2
What qualities do you think a good tamarin observer should have? Why?
What do you think the Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Program will have to do to reach its goal of placing 2,000 tamarins in the wild by 2025?

10. Canopy
the high, sheltering branches of the rain forest

11. Captive
captured, held against one’s will

12. Dilemma
a situation in which one is given a difficult choice to make

13. extinction
the condition of having died out

14. genes
tiny pieces of matter in cells that carry the blueprints for characteristics

15. habitat
a natural environment for native creatures

16. Humid
air that is really hot and sticky. This happens when there is a lot of water vapor in the air.

17. Observation
the act of paying close attention

18. Predators
animals that prey on others

19. reintroduce
the process of returning animals to their native habitats

20. Time to read!
Open your reading text books to page #629