Pygmy marmoset facts for kids
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Cebidae
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Callithrix
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Pygmy marmosets are the smallest marmosets and one of the smallest of all primates. They inhabit Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. Most pygmy marmosets lives in troops of two to nine individuals, with a dominant male, a breeding female, and up to four successive litters of offspring. The modal size of a standard stable troop would be 6 individuals.
Pygmy marmosets have tawny agouti fur (the tip of the hair is a different color to the base) with an indistinctly dark-ringed tail.
Habitat
They live in flooded forest near rivers, bamboo thickets and the edges of agricultural fields.
Diet
Pygmy marmosets mainly feed on gum (tree exudates, sap), but they also eat fruit, nectar and insects. They gouge holes in the bark of trees, and revisit these holes daily to collect the sap. The marmosets hang on with specially adapted claws.
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The pygmy marmoset is the world's smallest monkey.
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Skull of a Pygmy marmoset
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Specialised claws allow the pygmy marmoset to cling to trees while feeding.
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Pygmy marmosets live in groups of two to nine individuals.
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Groups use contact calls to stay together when foraging, feeding, and travelling.
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