amazing animals, like a tiny dwarf - dwarf marmoset monkey.Another charming creature so hard to find in the world.
This - the small monkey that lives in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil and around the coast of the Amazon.It is barely ten or fifteen centimeters in adulthood.
But baby-marmosets can be proud of its tail.Its length is even greater than the length of the calf, sometimes reaching nineteen centimeters!It weighs very little monkey is also very little - no more than 150 grams.
the females usually have a couple of cute kids are born, for all who care a great family, because the family inhabit all members up to the fourth generation.It is also noticed that the mother - the member of the family, on whose shoulders rests the main responsibility for feeding babies.Directly involved in the upbringing of the younger cubs father and older brothers with sisters.
If adults have earned the name of the dwarf, the kids this kind - the most real "Thumbelina" and "boys-with-fingers."After all, to embrace human finger, have cubs barely have small hands!
this baby feeds on insects and fruit, giving preference to the fruit gum - close relatives of the famous Russians buckthorn.But most of all tamarins like tree sap.
in captive monkeys shorties people pampered apples, grated carrots, pumpkin, berries and bananas.Maybe the smallest marmoset monkey nature and would not refuse from the banana, but clean such a machine, exceeding its own size by almost half, from the skin is unlikely she would be under the force.
Despite the fact that the mini-monkeys live in a warm climate, their coat density striking color combinations and a variety of fur, usually on top of a bright, passing downward in light colors.
This unique little monkey is not for nothing has the long tail.It helps to make two-meter-jumping flights to escape the persecution of enemies.Acute tenacious claws enable the animal to move quickly on the vertical trunks and branches.
Moreover, thanks to low weight, even adult marmosets easily withstand thin twigs.Therefore, to catch an adult without her consent - it is quite difficult, almost impossible.
is probably influenced by the cost of marmosets.The smallest monkey in the world has a price we have between 100 000 and above!However, experts do not advise to keep in the house these lovely animals.
Being fairly gregarious and highly inquisitive, marmosets are able in one hour to clean the apartment a mess that the overhaul will be the only way out of this situation.Sharp claws can dig deep into the padded wall wiring, tenacious fingers break down the all locks and spoil the water.Their energy and imagination simply inexhaustible!
Usually in nature tamarins live 10 years, but in captivity, their lifespan is reduced to 8. What is the reason: in a food or a lack of fresh air, positive emotions from communicating with relatives or "crushing walls" - scientists have found so far failed.
