DES MOINES, Iowa — The Blank Park Zoo celebrated the arrival of twin cotton-top tamarin’s Saturday with Twin Day at the zoo.

In February, Blank Park Zoo announced the arrival of twin cotton-top tamarins born to parents Kida and Eddie. Kida delivered a set of twins, Cailtin and Clark, around the same time in 2024.

“We are celebrating the power of pairs, of multiples,” said Alex Payne, Marketing Manager Blank Park Zoo. “Kida, our cotton-top tamarin, just gave birth to her second set of twins in the last year so we thought it was a great opportunity to celebrate the power of twins, triplets, multiples.”

Des Moines Mother of Multiples, an organization that supports and brings together mothers facing the challenges of raising multiples, was there providing resources to parents.

Mother of Multiples honored mom Kida, who now has two sets of twins, with a membership into the group and has symbolically adopted mom Kida for the year.

Cotton-top tamarins are considered critically endangered and are only found in Columbia. Blank Park says that makes these twins truly twice as special.

“It’s really important to help make sure we have a healthy population of this species around the world,” said Payne. “It’s a really important conservation effort and being able to have two sets of twins born in the last year is really incredible.”

The twins have not been named yet, but Payne says Blank Park will host a naming contest in the next couple months.