The cute creatures are chatty, family oriented—and facing a shrinking habitat in the remote forests of Ecuador ...

Geoffroy's marmoset (Callithrix geoffroyi) originally occurred throughout the Atlantic forest area of southern Bahia, Espirito Santo and adjacent parts of Minas Gerais in south-eastern Brazil. Through ...

Few marmosets are kept singly in cages because they soon lose condition and, if not socially housed, often die. For special experimental paradigms such as metabolic studies short periods of isolation ...

The common marmoset may be small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, but the diminutive stature of these monkeys belies their enormous significance in unraveling the intricate mysteries of human ...

The Effects of Habitat Loss on Marmoset Survival This fire demonstrates the major threat to marmoset survival: habitat loss.

About a decade ago, Japan became the first country to adopt the common marmoset as a neurological model for a major brain project. A New World primate originating from Brazil, marmosets are easier ...

It was after midnight in Quito when Stella de la Torre came for me, waiting under a streetlamp next to the black minivan that would ferry us to the Amazon, to see the smallest monkey in the world.