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The Tití Urbano Initiative aims to raise awareness and exalt the biological diversity of the city of Medellín and its metropolitan area, and promote education using the endemic white-footed tamarin (Saguinus leucopus) as representative of this diversity.

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This process has involved the release of rehabilitated tamarins rescued from the illegal traffic, whose process has been monitored by volunteering undergraduate students.

First team of volunteers (2018)
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A social group of four tamarins was brought to the university campus from the rehabilitation center of Corpocaldas and introduced to an original group already present in campus following a 5-step process

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The Outcome!!

This is the case af an albino felid, and how we can use genetics to identify species

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