I am providing this material on my web site as a public service, and for the sake of the monkeys themselves. Saguinus oedipus is a species in danger of extinction. It was so declared back in the 1970s, largely as a result of the work I did in Colombia. Sadly, their fate still hangs in the balance.

One ray in the darkness is that a site that I discovered during my researches in Colombia, which I recommended in one report as a good site for a reserve, was made into a reserve. Both Colombian biologists and American biologists from the University of Wisconsin have been able to do at this site further longer-term studies, and in addition have done pioneering work with the local communitiy to generate their interest and support in protecting the monkeys.

Formerly my thesis and other publications were available only to those who knew of their existence, knew where to get them, and could afford to pay for them. Now I hope to make them available to anyone with a computer, even the poorest student.

My thesis was published, in part, and that material was also incorporated into a report in Spanish made available through government sources in Colombia. However, there is a lot of material in my thesis that was not published and has never to my knowledge been cited. The thesis has always been and is still available through University Microfilms in Michigan.

In particular I want to note that the Appendix to the thesis includes the results of phenological observations I did in the dry tropical forest where I was working, with graphs and species lists. In another Appendix there are graphs detailing timelines for all groups- who I saw during surveys, who was captured and marked and when.

Publications by Patricia F. Neyman

1975 El Titi Cabeza-blanca (Saguinus oedipus) de la Costa Caribe de Colombia. Estudios de su ecologia y organizacion social, hechos en el ambiente natural. Informe Final de Labores, 125p. Inderena, Bogota, Colombia.

1976, with R.A.Mittermeier Saguinus oedipus oedipus (Linneaus, 1733) IUCN Red Book entry declaring this species an endangered species.

1977 Aspects of the ecology and social organization of free-ranging Cotton-top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) and the conservation status of the species. In: Kleiman, D.G. (ed) The Biology and Conservation of the Callitrichidae: 39-71. Smithsonian Press; Washington, D.C. 354 p.

1977 How laboratories can contribute to studies of natural populations: with special reference to Callitrichids. Lab Primate News, July 1977: 1-7.

1977 Proteccion y manejo de los primates de Sucre y de Cordoba. 31p. Report to Inderena – essentially the same as the report following.

1977 The Protection and Management of Primates in Sucre and Cordoba (Colombia), A Report to the New York Zoological Society Regarding Studies Carried out in Colombia June – Sept. 1977. This report was required as a condition of the NYZS grant I was awarded to return to the 1973-76 study site for a brief period and to survey forests which might prove to be possible reserve sites for the species. It details the observations made on the Sinu.

1978? Saguinus oedipus oedipus (Linneaus, 1733) IUCN Red Book: 127-129. This revision mentions the Sinu observations I made.

1979 Ecology and Social Organization of the Cotton-top Tamarin (Saguinus oedipus). PhD Thesis, University of California, Berkeley. Click for downloadable pdf file.

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