the smallest monkey-type at all is the Zwergseidenäffchen. With a head-torso-length of 16 cm and a tail-length of approximately 18 cm, the adult little monkey weighs only 85 g.
Dwarf-silk-monkeys have round beheading at the head little with a type Mähne from soft fur. The individual hair is greenish colored and shows a row of yellow rings, so that a greenish-gray iridescence originates altogether.
Spread Dwarf-silk-monkeys live in South America and live in a relatively big area at the upper Amazon here.
Way of life Dwarf-silk-monkeys are food-specialists, who live mainly from plant-juices. They tap quite certain jungle-trees to it. However, also insects are not spurned beside it.
Dwarf-silk-monkeys live in small social groups on average of 6 animals, some adult and young of deceased age. There are also individually living animals beside it.
Reproduction In a group, only the position-highest female propagates in each case. After a Tragzeit of approximately 140 days, twins were born normally. The young weigh only approximately 15 g in the birth and are suckled for months in 3. They already are reproductive-capable in the age of 2 years.
Endangering Dwarf-silk-monkeys still are frequent, is destroyed more and more of its habitat however.
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