Pygmy marmoset
Cebuella pygmaea
The world’s smallest monkey, the pygmy marmoset, is the size of a thumb tip when born. Even fully grown it weighs only 100–200 grams. The pygmy marmoset’s primary nutrition is tree sap that it drains from the tree trunks by gnawing holes with its gutter-like lower teeth. Every group of monkeys has hole-embedded sap trees on their territory. The tiny mottled marmosets easily blend in the foliage. When threatened, they chirp and screech and the males show their white testicles.
Conservation
This species and the individuals living in Korkeasaari Zoo are part of an ex-situ conservation programme by the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria EAZA, known as the EEP.
Tropical house Amazonia
EAZA Ex-situ Programme
Endangerment
Distribution
Habitat
Diet
Size
Lifespan
10–12 years
Scientific classification
Order: Primates
Family: Callitrichidae