Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 3 species of marmoset, in the family Callitrichidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 3.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
1 species in this group is in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in 11 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
The smallest monkey in the world, at some 100 grams; it feeds on tree gum.
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It is the smallest monkey on the planet: it weighs little more than a hundred grams, less than an apple.
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Its neck is so flexible that it can turn its head 180 degrees while clinging vertically to a trunk, which lets it watch for predators without changing position.
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Its drooping white moustache gave it its name, because it resembled that of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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Its name comes from the German emperor Wilhelm II: the zoologist who described it gave it the epithet imperator half in jest, because its moustache resembled the Kaiser's, and the name ended up becoming official.
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It forms stable mixed groups with another tamarin species: they travel and feed together and share alarm calls, an interspecific alliance that works because each of them watches a different layer of the forest.
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It is one of the fastest-ageing primates known, and widely used as a biomedical model for the study of human ageing.
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It eats tree gum and sap, insects, fruit and nectar.
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