Firefighters in Brazil were able to rescue a truly tiny victim from a forest fire in Pau Furado State Park, about six hundred miles northwest of Rio. In the video, one rescuer can be seen cradling a ...

Deep in South American rainforests lives the pygmy marmoset, the world's smallest monkey. This tiny primate, weighing just 119 grams, thrives along riverbanks. Its unique diet of tree sap and insects, ...

MANAUS, Brazil, August 9, 2019 (ENS) – A new species of marmoset has been discovered in the southwest of Brazil’s Pará state in an area of the Amazon that has suffered extensive illegal logging and ...

A team of scientists has discovered a new marmoset species in the Brazilian Amazon. Schneider's marmoset is named after professor Horacio Schneider, a pioneer and major contributor to the research of ...

The marmosets and tamarins are the smallest of the higher primates. This makes their genome extremely valuable in studying the human species and others. They have for example, the best fathers in the ...

Common marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus) have been described as having human-like conversations according to a team of researchers from the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Native to Brazil, ...

A small, furry newcomer is making a lot of noise at Rafiki’s Planet Watch inside Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Two three-year-old marmosets are the parents of a baby, weighing only a few ounces. Disney ...

The Cape May County Zoo announced the arrival of a new primate this week. Leeloo, a 10-year-old female common marmoset, is the new companion for the zoo’s 13-year-old male, Nico. Leeloo came to the ...