The black-and-white tamarin (scientific name: Saguinus bicolor) is also known as the Brazilian Bare-faced Tamarin. It is an endangered primate.The black-and-white tamarin lives in small groups, with about 2-15 members in a group. In the Yadovduk Forest Reserve, there are an average of 4-8 black-and-...
Sapajus xanthosternos (scientific name: Sapajus xanthosternos) English Buff-headed Capuchin, Yellow-breasted Capuchin, German Gelbbrust-Kapuzineraffe, Portuguese Macaco-prego, Macaco-prego-de-peito-amarelo, no subspecies.The golden-bellied monkey is arboreal, diurnal, moves on quadrupeds, and tends...
Black-banded Capuchin (scientific name: Cebus olivaceus) English Guinan Weeper Capuchin, Wedge-capped Capuchin, Weeper Capuchin, French Sapajou pleurer, Spanish Capuchino Oliva, German Brauner Kapuzineraffe, no subspecies.Black-banded capuchins are very social animals, living in groups of about 10-3...
Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin (scientific name: Cebus malitiosus), foreign name Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin, no subspecies. Specific habits are unknown.Listed in the "Red List of Threatened Species of the World Conservation Union" (IUCN) 2015 ver3.1-Endangered (EN).Listed in Ap...
Cebus cuscinus (Scientific name: Cebus cuscinus) English Shock-headed Capuchin, Spanish Machin de Cara Blanca, no subspecies. The helmeted capuchin is a slender capuchin monkey distributed in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. Hershkovitz listed 13 subspecies of the white-fronted capuchin (C.albifrons Humbol...
Ecuadorian Capuchin (scientific name: Cebus aequatorialis) English: Ecuadorian White-fronted Capuchin, Ecuadorian Capuchin, Spanish: Machín Blanco de Occidente, Mono Capuchino, no subspecies.Ecuadorian capuchins live in groups of about 5-20 individuals, with females slightly outnumbering them in mo...
White-faced Capuchin (scientific name: Cebus capucinus) English Colombian White-throated Capuchin, White-faced Capuchin, White-headed Capuchin, White-throated Capuchin, French Sapajou capucin, Spanish Capuchino de Cara Blanca de Colombia, German Weißschulter-Kapuzineraffe, there are 2 subspecies.Th...
Brown-capped capuchin (scientific name: Cebus brunneus) English Venezuelan Brown Capuchin, Brown Weeper Capuchin, Spanish Capuchino de Venezuela, capuchino, capuchino venezolano, mono, mono capuchino, mono capuchino norteño, mono común, mono pardo, German Venezuela-Kapuzineraffe, no subspecies.The...
White-fronted Capuchin, also known as Cebus albifrons, lives in trees in tropical forests and rarely comes to the ground except for drinking water. It is agile, good at jumping and swimming. It lives in family-style groups, and each group has its own territory. Some like to eat fruits, leaves and fl...
The scientific name of the golden-bearded tamarin is Saguinus tripartitus. It lives in trees and groups. It forages during the day and rests in tree holes at night. It is omnivorous, with fruits as its main food. It also eats insects, nectar and plant juices, and occasionally eats small vertebrates....
Red-cap Moustached Tamarin, scientific name Saguinus pileatus, foreign name Red-cap Moustached Tamarin, eats fruits, nuts and other plant foods, also eats insects, spiders, frogs, small lizards and bird eggs. It has sharp vision, followed by hearing and smell. It is active during the day and lives i...
Cotton-headed Tamarin (scientific name: Saguinus oedipus) is also known as Cotton-headed Tamarin in English. It is about the same size as a marmoset.The food types and lifestyle of the cashmere-top tamarin are similar to those of ordinary marmosets. They mainly live on the edge of tropical forests,...
Emperor Tamarin (scientific name: Saguinus imperator) is also known as Emperor Tamarin in English. It has two subspecies.The emperor tamarin has sharp vision, but poor hearing and smell. It lives in the upper canopy of the rainforest almost all its life and rarely moves on the ground, because food c...
Golden Lion Tamarin (scientific name: Leontopithecus rosalia) is also known as Golden Lion Tamarin in English. There are no subspecies. There are about 1,000 Golden Lion Tamarins in the wild and 500 in captivity.Golden lion tamarins are diurnal arboreal animals. They are active and lively, with keen...
Black Lion Tamarin (scientific name: Leontopithecus chrysopygus) is also known as Black Lion Tamarin, and has no subspecies.The black lion tamarin is a diurnal arboreal animal. It is active and lively, with keen vision, hearing and smell. It is agile and extremely agile. It can leap from one tree to...
Golden-headed Lion Tamarin (scientific name: Leontopithecus chrysomelas), foreign name Golden-headed Lion Tamarin, no subspecies.Golden lion tamarins are diurnal arboreal animals. They are active and lively, with keen vision, hearing and smell. They are agile and extremely agile. They can leap from...
The Black-faced Lion Tamarin (scientific name: Leontopithecus caissara) was once a subspecies of the Golden Lion Tamarin and was classified as an independent species by the IUCN in 1990.The black-faced lion tamarin is a diurnal arboreal animal. It is active and lively, with keen vision, hearing and...
The scientific name of the pygmy marmoset is Cebuella pygmaea, and its foreign name is Pygmy Marmoset. There are two subspecies. It is a small monkey that lives in the tropical rainforests of South America and looks and behaves like a squirrel.The pygmy marmoset likes to live in the higher parts of...
Common Marmoset (scientific name: Callithrix jacchus) is called Common Marmoset in English. There are 2 subspecies.Common Marmoset is active during the day, mainly climbing and jumping on trees, and sometimes appears on flat ground. They form groups of 4-15 individuals, usually a family. Groups are...
The yellow-crowned marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps) is a species of marmoset endemic to Brazil.Yellow-crowned marmosets eat fruits, nuts and other plant foods, as well as insects, spiders, frogs, small lizards and bird eggs. Some species collect food with their hands, but do not put it directly into...