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Red-handed tamarin
Saguinus midas
28.0609, -16.6925
Field Notes
Description:
also known as the golden-handed tamarin or Midas tamarin, is a New World monkey named for the contrasting reddish-orange hair on their feet and hands.
They live in cooperative groups of 4 to 15 members with little competition among a group even between breeding males. Only one female among a group will breed during breeding season with the other females suppressing the instinct.
Habitat:
It is native to wooded areas north of the Amazon River in Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, and possibly Venezuela.
Notes:
This photo was taken in a park of conservation of primate species in Tenerife.
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