The Marmoset Monkey Page

Origin

 

· Marmosets belong to the family of Callitrichids, and are known as New World Monkeys

· Marmosets are found throughout the forests of Central and South America, utilizing all levels of the forest, they live in the rain forests, gallery forests, dry forests and savannah woodlands, and usually only descend to the ground in search of prey

· Marmosets are distributed mainly from the Amazon Basin, south of the Amazon River in Brazil, east to the Brazilian Atlantic coast and extending over into Eastern Bolivia

· Its habitat is usually secondary lowland forest that is evergreen or semi deciduous; it also prefers the forest edges up to 500m in altitude. It prefers disturbed forest rather than mature virgin forests