Marmosets are small monkeys that live high up in the canopies of South American rainforests. There are more than 20 species, and most could fit comfortably in an adult human's hand. Marmosets have ...

A team of scientists has discovered a new marmoset species in the Brazilian Amazon. Schneider's marmoset is named after professor Horacio Schneider, a pioneer and major contributor to the research of ...

From a stretch of the Amazon forest lying between the Tapajós and Jamanxim rivers in the Brazilian state of Pará, researchers have described a new-to-science species of marmoset. The marmoset, with ...

The buffy-headed marmoset is down to no more than 2,500 individuals scattered across dwindling patches of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. It faces a range of threats, from yellow fever to climate change, ...

In speech and music, words and notes depend on each other. Humans are highly sensitive to such dependencies, but the evolutionary origins of this capacity are poorly understood. Cognitive biologists ...

Learning to make sounds by listening to others is a skill that helps make us human. But research now suggests a species of monkey may have evolved similar abilities. Marmosets have the capacity to ...

The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is increasingly becoming a key species in behavioral and biomedical research. Because of this, research focused on improving the behavioral and physiological ...

As with other marmosets, only one female breeds, and they usually give birth to twins - with each weighing around half an ...

Yoshiaki Kita, Hirozumi Nishibe, Yan Wang, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Satomi S. Kikuchi, Mami U, Aya C. Yoshida, Chihiro Yoshida, Takashi Kawase, Shin Ishii, Henrik Skibbe, Tomomi Shimogori Proceedings of the ...

Different cell types—say, heart, liver, blood, and sperm cells—possess characteristics that help them carry out their unique jobs in the body. In general, those characteristics are hard-wired. Without ...

MANAUS, Brazil (August 12, 2021) – A team of scientists has discovered a new marmoset species in the Brazilian Amazon. Schneider’s marmoset (Mico schneideri), described in the latest issue of the ...