Goeldi Tamarin

On September 1st we signed the contract to sponsor a Goeldi Tamarin at the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). I personally visited the zoo from my childhood and its like a dream come true.

The Artis Zoo could use more sponsorship to enhanced the experience of the zoo, but also to educate young and old about our planets animals and plants. Check their website at artis.

More information about the Goeldi Tamarin

..Goeldi’s Marmoset or Goeldi’s Monkey (Callimico goeldii) is a small, South American New World monkey that lives in the upper Amazon Basin region of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It is the only species classified in the genus Callimico, and the monkeys are sometimes referred to as “callimicos”.

Goeldi’s Marmosets are blackish or blackish-brown in color and the hair on their head and tail sometimes has red, white, or silverly brown highlights.[4] Their bodies are about 8–9 inches (20–23 cm) long, and their tails are about 10–12 inches (25–30 cm) long.

Goeldi’s Marmoset was first described in 1904, making Callimico one of the more recent monkey genera to be described. In older classification schemes it was sometimes placed in its own family Callimiconidae and sometimes along with the marmosets and tamarins in the subfamily Callitrichinae in the family Cebidae. More recently, Callitrichinae has been (re-)elevated to family status as Callitrichidae.
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