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Poggis Animal House

This site is about Marmosets, a small monkey that live in trees . Marmosets smell, they use their scent glands for communication. This makes it possible to identify themselves to each other. They have been kept by people as pets for several years but (unfortunately) a lot of the common marmosets are also used for medical research.

"The Marmosets are the genus Callithrix of New World monkeys."

Marmosets are highly active, living in the upper canopy of forest trees, and feeding on insects, fruit and leaves. They have long lower incisors, this enables them to chew holes in the trunks or branches of trees to harvest the gum inside; some species are specialized feeders on gum in the wild.