Description
Marmosets and tamarins eat fruits, flowers, and nectar, as well as animal prey including frogs, snails, lizards, spiders and insects. They have been known to exploit the insects disturbed by army-ant swarm raids. Marmosets also eat the gum of trees, produced by trees’ defense system against damage to its bark.
most monkey species are meat-eaters. Watts considered over 400 studies of meat-eating among primates and found that 12 of the current 16 families are meat-eaters. This adds up to 89 different species of monkeys that eat meat.
