Pygmy Marmosets in Colombia. The smallest monkeys in the world
Malcolm Peaker (noreply@blogger.com)
Last November we saw these Pygmy Marmosets in Putomayo, a department in south-west Colombia. We flew to Villagarzon from Bogota, staying at the Portal del Sol, an ecolodge owned by a family rewilding the farmland which runs down to the river. And it was by the river that the troop of marmosets appeared. We had already seen the holes they had gnawed in the trees and which they visit to gather the material the tree has extruded.
The shape of their lower incisors is a clear adaptation to gnawing...