Fergal
Goeldi's monkey (Callimico goeldii)
About me
| Basic Info | Home: | Monkeying around in the upper Amazon basin is where you'll find me and my chums, more specifically Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. |
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| Size: | We're small wee things, about 23 cm long at best, although our tails are around 30cm long – bigger than our actual bodies! | |
| Favourite foods: | When the heat rolls in it's a fungi frenzy in our neck of the woods, pan fry them with olive oil and garlic and serve on crusty toast, garnished with flat leaf parsley, or alternatively scoff them down straight away where ever you find them! When the rains start our diet is much more varied, goodbye mushies hello fruit, spiders, lizards, frogs and snakes – nice! | |
| Environment: | Hangin' with my monkey homies in the understory is what we're all about. This means avoiding all those rascals who are trying to grab me for dinner, like pumas, hawks and eagles. No to be boastful, but we're rather popular in the Amazon, with Reggie and his red bellied tamarins enjoying a swing with us now and again. | |
| Sounds like: | HOE! HOE! |
| Further Info |
On their own, they live in small social groups comprising 2-8 individuals led by the dominant female. It has been found, however, that goeldi’s monkeys form troops with other monkey species to improve foraging opportunities. Goeldi’s monkeys spend most of their time resting (66%). During these ‘resting’ periods, they spend most of their time scanning, but they also groom themselves and investigate. When they do move around to forage and engage in other activities though, they do it very well indeed. They are able to leap very long distances from tree to tree using their tails to balance. With regard to reproduction, goeldi’s monkeys are quite special since they can actually give birth twice a year, unlike other New World monkeys who do so only once a year. For the first couple of weeks, the mother takes care of the newborn, and the father takes on most parental responsibilities from approximately week 3 onwards (except nursing obviously!). Some captive goeldi’s monkeys have been known to live for up to 20 years. |
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