Pygmy Marmoset
Pygmy Marmoset
Woodland Animal Zoo Fact Sheets
Seattle, WA
Habitat
They prefer floodplain forests and the natural tropical forest edge.
Diet
In the wild: Pygmy marmosets feed on berries, buds, fruits and flowers. They also have the habit of sap sucking, which involves gnawing holes into a favorite tree trunk and drinking the sap which is a very important source of food. Family units are territorial, with groups having one or more sap producing trees in their range which they defend. These tropical primates fill the same niche as our North American sapsucker birds.
At the zoo: Canned marmoset diet, yams, fruits, gum arabic (sap), browse and insects.
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