- CHARACTERISTICS
- Length of 23 to 25cm, weighing some 450 grams.
With the peculiarity of its immense white moustaches.
It has non-opposable thumbs and the nails on its digits are hook-shaped.
- DIET
- Principally fruit and nectar, complemented with sap, flower and invertebrates.
- REPRODUCTION
- They have a polyandric system, between non-related adults.
The gestation period is 140-145 days.
They give birth to twins.
- CURIOSITIES
- They live in family groups that can include from the breeding pair up to 40 individuals. Together with Geoffroy’s Marmoset.
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- NAME
- Emperor Tamarin
- HABITAT
- East of Peru, North of Bolivia and West of Brazil
- SCIENTIFIC NAME
- Saguinus imperator
- SPICE
- Mammals
- DIET
- Omnivorous
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