笼养棉顶狨猴的育婴行为直接影响婴猴的存活率。作者的研究发现，除了双亲猴的抚育经验外，母猴产后身体状况、婴猴的体重及每胎仔猴个体数均与双亲猴背负、残害、遗弃婴猴行为有关。采取人工喂养是提高婴猴存活率的主要手段。

Infant-care behavior of cotton-top tamarin has a direct effect on infant morta-. lity. This study indicated that the involvement of parents in infant-care were related not only to the biparental experience in rearing infants, but also to the mother's nutritional status after parturition, and to the body weight and numbers of infant. Feeding with artificial milk is an important attempt to rear the forsaked babies successfully.