Trail 4 - Sally the Sloth is a mammal

Tina the Tamarin monkey is a PRIMATE.

Primates are mammals that are biologically very closely related to you humans, with over 98% of the same genes!

Tina the Tamarin is worried though. Part of her family is ENDANGERED as a great deal of their home in the rainforest in South America is being cut down.

Two types of species in her family, the Golden Lion Tamarins in Brazil and the Cotton-Top tamarins in Colombia, face EXTINCTION. Tina explains:

"Extinction is very serious. It means that if the last animal of that species dies, the species will never exist again on earth."

Unfortunately many animals and plants have already been made extinct by the loss of their homes in the rainforests. Because scientists have not identified most of the world's animal and plant species, many may be lost before we even have a chance to find them.