Pygmy marmoset
Amazing fact
Pygmy marmosets can make calls so high-pitched that people cannot hear them.
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Pygmy marmosets can make calls so high-pitched that people cannot hear them.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Pygmy marmoset
- Scientific name
- Cebuella pygmaea
- Japanese name
- キタピグミーマーモセット（ピグミーマーモセット）
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Callitrichidae
- Genus
- Cebuella
It is a tiny monkey that lives in the rainforests of the upper Amazon in South America.
Apart from its big toes, its nails are claws, which let it cling even to thick tree trunks.
It gouges holes in bark with its sharp lower teeth and laps up the sap that pools in the holes with its tongue.
How the Pygmy marmoset lives
They move headfirst up and down trees and thick vines. They sometimes lie in wait for insects such as butterflies that visit sap holes. In the troop, all members help care for the babies. They spend the night among thick vines or in a tree hole.
San Diego Zoo Wildlife AllianceBasic data
- Size
- 12–16 cmSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
- Weight
- about 100 g日本モンキーセンター
- Lifespan
- up to 12 yearsSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
- Diet
- Tree sap, fruit, insects and others日本モンキーセンター
- Range
- Upper Amazon River basin日本モンキーセンター
Where the Pygmy marmoset 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
- 侏狨
- 繁體中文
- 侏狨
- Español
- Chambira
- Deutsch
- Zwergseidenäffchen
- Português (Brasil)
- Sagui-pigmeu
- العربية
- قشة قزمية غربية
- Русский
- Карликовая 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
- 日本モンキーセンター — キタピグミーマーモセットChecked: 2026-11-03
- San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance — Pygmy marmosetChecked: 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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