Common Marmosets belong to the family Callitrichids, and are known as New World Monkeys.

They communicate with a variety of high pitch calls. The alarm is call is “gee-gee-gee-gee” and their mating call is a short “uistiti-uistiti”.

Most primates have “hands” like us, but marmosets have curved claws, except ion their big toes where they have flat nails.

These claws help them to rip into trees to reach the gum . They also allow them to run up a sheer side of a tree.

Six species of Marmoset are on the Endangered Species list.

Their future is in our hands.