If there was an award for the cutest animal in a major role, it would have to go to Mona, a common marmoset, for her performance in the Monterey Zoo's education program. She's now retired and resides ...

Monkeys and other animals communicate through calls that can differ depending on region. The common marmoset is one such animal that communicates using regional dialects. Researchers have now found ...

Learning to make sounds by listening to others is a skill that helps make us human. But research now suggests a species of monkey may have evolved similar abilities. Marmosets have the capacity to ...

Marmosets are small, adorable monkeys native to South America, but it would be unwise to underestimate them. These diminutive simians are full of surprises, living sophisticated social lives in ...

The human facial action coding system, or FACS, has been developed as a tool for cross-species systematic comparisons of facial muscles to help interpret the resulting facial expressions of the common ...

Common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus, are vocal little monkeys from South America with a hearing range similar to that of humans. And like us, it appears these New World primates can perceive pitch.

To study the importance of olfactory changes for the social life of common marmosets the scientists collected odor samples from the anogenital region of female common marmosets at multiple points in ...

Plasmodium brasilianum causes chronic quartan malaria in the common marmoset Callithrix jacchus, whereas Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is followed by an infectious mononucleosis-like syndrome ...

The marmosets and tamarins are the smallest of the higher primates. This makes their genome extremely valuable in studying the human species and others. They have for example, the best fathers in the ...

Experimental non-human primate models are critical for evaluating the safety of promising viral vector constructs for potential clinical trials in humans. The owl monkey (Aotus trivirgatus) has served ...