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Chester Zoo in the UK is celebrating the "exceptionally rare" birth of two Cotton-Top Tamarins after mom gave birth to twins. On August 9, 2024, the Chester Zoo shared details and photos of the ...
Related: The 'Circle of Life' Continues with Baby Tamarins Born at Disney World's Animal Kingdom. Facts About Critically Endangered Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys. Tamarins are small monkeys, with ...
A pair of critically endangered pied tamarin monkeys were recently born at a zoo in southern Tennessee.. The Chattanooga Zoo said the mother, Daphne, had given birth to the healthy twins early on ...
The tamarins are squirrel-sized New World monkeys from the family Callitrichidae in the genus Saguinus. They are the first offshoot in the Callitrichidae tree, and therefore are the sister group of a clade formed by the lion tamarins , Goeldi's monkeys and marmosets .
The cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) is a small New World monkey weighing less than 0.5 kg (1.1 lb). This New World monkey can live up to 24 years, but most of them die by 13 years. One of the smallest primates, the cotton-top tamarin is easily recognized by the long, white sagittal crest extending from its forehead to its shoulders.
The white-lipped tamarin (Saguinus labiatus), also known as the red-bellied tamarin, is a tamarin which lives in the Amazon area of Brazil and Bolivia.. The red belly of these New World monkeys is its most remarkable outward characteristic.
The bearded emperor tamarin and black-chinned emperor tamarin populations of the emperor tamarin were formally differentiated as distinct subspecies of in 1977. [ 6 ] The main evolution in morphological traits, compared to other tamarins, consists of a hypertrophied mustache, which they share with their last common ancestor. [ 6 ]
The saddle-back tamarins are squirrel-sized New World monkeys from the family Callitrichidae in the genus or subgenus Leontocebus.They were split from the tamarin genus Saguinus based on genetic data and on the fact that saddle-back tamarins are sympatric with members of Saguinus to a greater extent than would be expected from two members of the same genus.