Do you know how big the smallest monkey in the world is?
is only 10-12 centimeters, about the length of your index finger.
In the tropical rain forests of South America, there is a small monkey that looks and behaves like a squirrel. Because it has a small body and a long tail, it rests on extremely small plant branches, and it moves quickly. It often runs around and jumps through the woods. It can jump freely, so the locals call it " squirrel monkey ", "bird monkey" and so on.
After research by zoologists, its scientific name is determined to be pygmy marmoset or bonobo.
The Japanese marmoset is a member of the family of the family Marmosetidae. The Marmosetidae family has 42 "members" including the Japanese marmoset, the woolly marmoset, and the jumping monkey . Marmosets give birth to cubs after about 150 days of pregnancy, and often give birth to two young tamarins in one litter.
Marmosets are different from other monkeys. Newborn baby marmosets are taken care of by their father. The father carries the child around all day long and combs the child's body hair from time to time. Only when feeding, the father takes care of the child. Send it to mom.
When a pygmy marmoset grows up, it is only a little over 12cm tall, averaging about 60 grams, and is no bigger than a squirrel. This kind of monkey likes to catch lice and is docile by nature, but the pygmy marmoset is an undomesticated species, and it is difficult for them to be artificially domesticated and domesticated, because the growth of the pygmy marmoset cannot be separated from "family education" and "family care."
Pygmy marmoset likes to live in the rain forest. It is active alone or in pairs at night and hides in trees to sleep during the day.
When foraging, it uses its unique fingers to dig out insect eggs in tree trunks, dig out coconut shell fruit pulp, drill out eggshells and egg whites, and also eat some tree bark, bamboo , etc.
The cry of the pygmy marmoset is shrill, like crying, which is creepy at night. Because of its strange appearance and short body, many horse people believe that the aye-aye will bring them bad luck.
If they see an aye-aye, they will kill it immediately and nail its body to a stake in the hope that this will drive away the bad luck. In addition, the rainforests on which pygmy marmosets depend for survival have been cut down, so they are also facing the risk of extinction.
By the 1960s, pygmy marmosets were rarely seen anymore. In 1966, two French biologists finally collected 9 pygmy marmosets and released them in the northeast of Madagascar . After that, people searched several times but found nothing.
Such a cute little monkey, do you want to raise one?
