The world’s smallest monkey is called the pygmy marmoset, and it is, predictably, very tiny, just a little scoop of fur. It likes to eat the sticky resin found in tree bark, known as gum ...

Marmosets and tamarins are small (250-500 g) South American monkeys of the family Callitrichidae. They are forest living species with squirrel-like locomotion and, unlike typical monkeys, most of the ...

Some adults of the smallest extant monkeys, marmosets and tamarins, weigh in at a fraction of a pound. These tiny monkeys lost their wisdom teeth as they evolved, yet still have ample space in their ...

Jonas Wahlstrom, head of the Skansen Zoo, said he had received a call from Riyadh Zoo saying that Saudi authorities would not grant entry to the pygmy marmosets. "They didn't want the monkeys ...

We know you’ll go bananas for these adorable monkeys that can fit in the palm of your hand. The pygmy marmoset is the world’s smallest monkey, with a body only 12 to 15 centimetres long.