Golden-headed Lion Tamarin
Golden-headed Lion Tamarin
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Class
Mammalia -
Order
Primates -
Familly
Callithricidae
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22–26cm -
♂540–700g, ♀ 480–590g -
4 months -
1–3, usually 2 -
15–20 years
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Diet
omnivorous (fruit, flowers, nectar, gum, small animals...) -
Habitat
tropical forest -
Range
east Brazil -
This species is part of a European Breeding Program
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Population in the wild
En diminution -
IUCN REDLIST status
Golden-headed Lion Tamarins live in small groups of less than 10. Their home range covers 40–200 hectares, depending on the presence/abundance of food. Females often give birth to twins after a pregnancy lasting 125–130 days. After a few weeks, the other members of the group are allowed to carry the young, which allows the mother to eat more easily. She takes them back to breastfeed.
Like other Lion Tamarins, the Golden-headed Lion Tamarin is the victim of deforestation due to logging, charcoal production, the growth in farming and breeding and the rise in urbanisation.
The biological reserve Una has a population of about 450 Golden-headed Lion Tamarins. In the last 10 years the focus has been on the protection of surrounding forests, which allowed the reserve to expand to 18,500 hectares in 2007.
