Black-tailed marmoset

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  gentle lemur

• 22 Apr 2013

Feeding on sap or enlarging hole in bark? Miniature Monkeys, Chester, 20th April 2013.

 

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  vogelcommando

• 22 Apr 2013

Black-tailed is the same as silvery marmoset ?

 

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  TeaLovingDave

• 22 Apr 2013

No; this is Mico melanurus as opposed to Mico argentatus - a fair few species were split from M.argentatus a decade or so ago, with this being the best known.

 

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  bongorob

• 23 Apr 2013

TeaLovingDave said:

No; this is Mico melanurus as opposed to Mico argentatus - a fair few species were split from M.argentatus a decade or so ago, with this being the best known.

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A lot of people wrongly call them silvery marmosets.

 

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  Onychorhynchus coronatus

• 28 Feb 2021

Almost certainly feeding off sap, most of the diet of this species consists of exudates.

 

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  gentle lemur

• 28 Feb 2021

@Onychorhynchus coronatus I got better photos of this behaviour at Newquay a year later.

Black-tailed marmoset feeding on sap (composite)

• gentle lemur
• 1 Oct 2014
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I have seen live trees in marmoset enclosures which have been used in this way, but this was the...

 

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  Onychorhynchus coronatus

• 28 Feb 2021

@gentle lemur As usual these are excellent shots ! Such a charismatic little species too.