Buttonwood Park Zoo
January 29, 2023
Information form the Zoo's website appears below.
Took the Sony A7RV out to the local Zoo to test out the animal eye and bird eye AI autofocus feature. Wow, I am stunned at how well it performed! Even shooting through glass such as this shot. Can't imagine the detail when not photographed through glass but for now, this is as close as I can dream of getting close. Many more shots from the zoo coming up later this week.
Oh, and if you ever visit Buttonwood Park Zoo, you'll see two of my prints of Molly the coyote and one of a river otter that I took a few years ago. Thrilling to see them hanging in the zoo to represent their animals.
SPECIES
Golden-headed Lion Tamarin
SCIENTIFIC NAME
Leontopithecus chrysomelas
HABITAT
Tall evergreen broadleaf tropical forests and semi-deciduous forests along the Atlantic coast from 10 to 33 feet in the canopy. They depend on tall, mature forest for its abundance of tree holes which they use as sleeping dens.
DIET
Frugivorous. They eat mostly fruits, flowers, nectar, plant exudates and occasional small invertebrates
LIFE EXPECTANCY
15 – 20 years
THREATS: Just 2-5% of the golden-headed lion tamarin’s original habitat remains in Brazil. The remaining forests are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate for the region and the surviving populations are depleted and fragmented.
COMMITTED TO CONSERVATION: The Buttonwood Park Zoo participates in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival Plan (SSP) for Golden-headed Lion Tamarins. The goal of the SSP is to cooperatively manage animal populations within AZA accredited zoos to ensure the sustainability of a healthy and genetically diverse population while enhancing the conservation of this species in the wild.
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