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 ...

I and thousands of residents, students and faculty would appreciate the opportunity to observe what Dr. Lacreuse shared in her interview with the reporters about the well-being of the marmosets in her ...

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 ...

The world’s smallest monkey is called the pygmy marmoset, and it is, predictably, very tiny, just a little scoop of fur. It likes to eat the sticky resin found in tree bark, known as gum, and is ...