Trees once covered these rolling grasslands, but widespread deforestation for settlements and energy resources destroyed the natural habitat for animals like the golden lion tamarin.
Today, it's already possible to see the lion tamarins, the -- the families of the real monkey by themselves using some of the forest corridors there where we have put back.
But when she was hired to help build a zoo, she met the animal that would change her life and theirs, the cotton-top tamarin, a little monkey with a look right out of Dr. Seus.
If you ever had tamarin candies growing up, where it's, like, very sour, very acidic, and then a little bit salty outside, this is what you would find in powdered form.