They are notable for living in large family groups. Female marmosets usually give birth to twins, and the entire family is very involved in carrying and raising them, including their fathers as ...

Thus, despite their small size, they need and use a relatively large area. Of course a zoo cannot replicate the amount of space a family of marmosets would occupy in the wild, but physically it should ...

These animals often carry another individual's sperm or egg cells—in this case from their fraternal twin—not only complicating family trees ... have known that marmosets are usually ...

An old friend of de la Torre’s named César Piaguaje picked us up in his canoe and took us to his house, where his family greeted us. Then, we went out to a tree where a pygmy marmoset that ...

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 ...

Common marmosets are proving to be a vital key to ... And their complex social behaviours closely mirror those of humans, with intricate family structures and sophisticated communication patterns.