Mico-leão-dourado - (Golden lion tamarin)
Leontopithecus rosalia
-22.4903, -43.1856
Field Notes
Description:
The Golden lion tamarin or mico-leão-dourado, as it is called in Brazil, on average, adults (male and female) weigh 17 to 24 ounces (481.9 to 680.4 grams) and measure 6 to 10 inches (15.2 to 25.4 cm) not including the tail, which measures about 12 to 15 inches (32 to 40 cm).
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They eat fruits, flowers, nectar, plant exudates (gums) and animal prey (including frogs, snails, lizards, spiders and insects).
Habitat:
As an endemic species of Atlantic Forest that are extinction threatened, they rarely are viewed like this one, and I could not be more happy to found it, four weeks ago, completely free at the forest, mixed in a group of Black-tufted marmoset (sagui-de-tufo-preto), and away from the area where their populations are currently being controlled.
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Notes:
Golden lion tamarins have a number of features that are atypical for the Order Primates.
Their thumbs are not fully opposable and their hallux (big toe) is located back from the other digits (similar to a bird’s big toe) and retained its flat nail.
Unlike most New World primates, golden lion tamarin tails are not prehensile.
After a week, this wonderful primate abandoned the group and was not more viewed together with them at the places where they are seen almost three times by day.
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