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 ...

Marmoset monkeys have been found to use specific calls to name each other, a behaviour previously thought to exist only in humans, dolphins and elephants. Naming other individuals in a population ...

Scientists studying the behaviour of marmoset monkeys believe the creatures are able to call one another by name. The monkeys were found to use calls - known as “phee calls” - which were ...

Marmosets and tamarins are small (250-500 g) South American monkeys of the family Callitrichidae. They are forest living species with squirrel-like locomotion and, unlike typical monkeys, most of the ...

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 ...

During Easter, a cruel case of animal abuse occurred in the municipality of San Francisco (Antioquia) where a man was captured after being accused of killing a marmoset with stones to steal its ...

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 ...

What made marmosets an ideal choice for your research? I’ve worked with baboons, capuchins, and rhesus monkeys, but to study aging, I switched to marmosets. Marmosets have the shortest lifespan of all ...

Jonas Wahlstrom, head of the Skansen Zoo, said he had received a call from Riyadh Zoo saying that Saudi authorities would not grant entry to the pygmy marmosets. "They didn't want the monkeys ...