The Golden Tamarin

The loin tamarins prefer to live in jungles that have tall, fruit-bearing trees. They are found only in the tropical forests of the Brazilian state Bahia on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. They live at heights of 3 meters to 10 meters high. They claim anywhere from 25 to 100 acres as their territory and travel up to a third of it daily, foraging for food. Their natural enemies are hawks, raptors, jaguars, snakes, and human poachers.

Food sharing and grooming are very important in the social hierarchy. They help establish mates, and bonds between offspring and mother and offspring and father.

The lion tamarins have three main ways of communicating: voice, olfactory, and visual. Their voice communication depends mainly on the activity and the behavior of the tamarin. Long calls maintain pair bonds and signify a group’s presence their territory, trills are a sign of solitary activity, clucks signal foraging, and whines are communication between individuals. Olfactory communication consists of markings done by tamarins using suprapubic secretions. These markings not only mark territory, but also are a sort of message exchange between the general individuals. Visual communication consists of facial expressions and piloerection. Tamarins are unique in the sense that they have more facial muscles than any other primate. They use these mu

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