Golden lion tamarin
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Golden lion tamarins are born with fur and their eyes open.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Golden lion tamarin
- Scientific name
- Leontopithecus rosalia
- Japanese name
- ゴールデンライオンタマリン
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Callitrichidae
- Genus
- Leontopithecus
It is a small monkey that lives in humid, vine-filled forests along the Atlantic coast of southeastern Brazil.
It has a reddish-gold coat, and a long mane that covers its ears frames its dark, almost bare face.
It pokes its long, slender fingers into cracks in bark and other hiding places to find insects and other small prey to eat.
How the Golden lion tamarin lives
They are active by day and eat fruit, insects and small invertebrates. They share food within their family groups. They leap between branches and vines as they move. They sleep in tree holes from dusk until sunrise.
Smithsonian National ZooUniversity of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Size
- 15–25 cm
- Weight
- 482–680 g
- Diet
- Fruits, insects and small invertebrates
- Range
- Atlantic coastal regions of southeastern Brazil
Where the Golden lion tamarin has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 简体中文
- 金狮面狨
- 繁體中文
- 金獅面狨
- 한국어
- 황금사자타마린
- Español
- Tamarino león dorado
- Français
- Singe-lion
- Deutsch
- Goldenes Löwenäffchen
- Português (Brasil)
- Mico-leão-dourado
- Italiano
- Leontocebo rosalia
- العربية
- قرد الأسد الذهبي
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Tamarin singa emas
- Русский
- Золотистая игрунка
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- Smithsonian National Zoo — Golden lion tamarinChecked: 2026-11-03
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Leontopithecus rosaliaChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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