Although these are not popular with all animals, palatability can be improved by soaking in a fruit drink. This may be preferred by infants. Marmoset jelly is another product designed to provide the ...

The pygmy marmoset, a diminutive primate native to South America, is the smallest monkey in the world. The animal weighs just ...

Now, scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that marmoset monkeys are part of this select list of only four animals. The monkeys appear to use specific calls, called phee-calls ...

The natural food of marmosets and tamarins consists of fruits, nectar, shoots and insects, young birds and bird's eggs. The animal protein intake is high. The short tusked marmosets (Callithrix and ...

A monkey's uncle may actually be its father, according to a new study showing that germ-cell chimerism is rampant in marmosets. These animals often carry another individual's sperm or egg cells ...

Okano, Erika Sasaki and their colleagues made international headlines when, in 2009, they developed the first transgenic marmosets, each engineered to carry a jellyfish gene that made the animals ...

has long been intrigued with animal behavior, particularly how nonhuman primates are remarkably similar and dissimilar to humans. This curiosity drove her to study neurocognitive aging in marmosets, ...