Guariba, Kamui, Coari, Baião, Nevio or Novia - there were plenty of melodious names to choose from when choosing the name for the first FAZ patent animal in the Frankfurt Zoo.
But another name has now won the race.
The black howler monkey, born on May 30th in the Frankfurt Zoo, will be called Tambo as the abbreviation for Tambopata.
FAZ reader Heiko Mußmann submitted and justified this name suggestion.
“Tambopata is a river, a national park of the same name and a province in the Peruvian rainforest.
Howler monkeys live there and you can visit them together with the park guides, ”he wrote in his email. 31 percent of the 733 readers who took part in the vote were convinced.
Daniel Meuren
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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Heiko Mußmann can now look forward to visiting Tambo on September 10th at the animal patent day in the zoo, accompanied by a small FAZ delegation. He will then see a three and a half month old monkey of the genus “Alouatta caraya”, one of the 150 species of New World monkeys, one of the spider-tail monkeys. When Tambo is bigger, he will learn to grab his tail and to be able to climb skillfully with five “arms”.
Thanks to these skills, his three conspecifics living next to him in the Ukumari land of the zoo are already performing daring climbs in their enclosure, the covered part of which you can already see from the entrance area of the zoo.
The open-air enclosure is located in the immediate vicinity and is the first stop for visitors after entering the zoo through the main entrance.
Gender still unknown
"Tambo or Tambopata is a nice name with reference to the natural environment of our howler monkey," says FAZ editor Carsten Knop. “Now that our sponsored animal has a name, we can develop a real relationship with him. I'm already looking forward to our next meeting at Animal Patent Day, if Tambo then perhaps dares to part with his mother. ”During the first visit in June, Tambo hid himself very well from Knop's curious glances by looking at his mother's stomach Lawa hid in fur of the same color. Photographer Frank Rumpenhorst now had to muster a lot of patience and courage on Tuesday in order to be able to put Tambo in the picture a little more individually for the first time. Courage was needed because Father Santiago repeatedly expressed his protective instinct,that Rumpenhorst, with its 400 millimeter lens, is not that welcome as a visitor in the enclosure. Rumpenhorst defied the roar and hiss and brought wonderful pictures from the enclosure to the editorial office.
When choosing a name, which we called for three weeks ago, there were two obstacles: On the one hand, the zoo set clear criteria. There must be a connection to the geographic origin of the animals, in this case to South America and primarily to the Amazon. And names that are too human are not to be chosen. Another difficulty: Since the newborn has been largely left alone with his family, in which father Santiago also, according to animal keeper Fuchs, “as a great man, very well cared for mother and child”, the gender has not yet been determined.
Only after a good six months would the change in color of the rock from brown to black indicate a male monkey.
Before that, only veterinarians would determine the sex if the monkey ever needed veterinary help.
If he continues to do as well as he did in the first six weeks of his life, the zoo would leave his new resident alone.
For the first time in its history, the FAZ will sponsor an animal in the Frankfurt Zoo for ten years.
The black howler monkey fits in well, said Stefan Stadler, the deputy zoo director, at the official handover of the certificate on June 22nd.
“It doesn't get its name by chance, but because it makes a sound,” he says.
"That is definitely the case with a newspaper like the FAZ."