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Aztec & Inca
- Marmosets Aztec and Inca are Common Marmosets native to the forests of Central and South
America. They love to scamper and play in the trees and only come down to ground
level to find food. Marmosets enjoy a varied diet including flowers, fruit, frogs,
snails and insects. Aztec and Inca also enjoy rice, chicken and yoghurt. Aztec
and Inca arrived here in May 2001 from a zoo, where they could not be housed
any longer. They spend their days playing and grooming each other.
Marmosets are not an endangered species, but do suffer from the
trade in live animals and loss of natural habitat. Your support is
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These beautiful monkeys live high in
the canopies of the South American rainforests in large troops of
around 40-50 individuals. They move nosily through the rainforest
making twitters and clucks, which disturb small animals and insects
on which they feed. They also eat seeds and fruit. Squirrel monkeys
are among our closest living relatives and they are very intelligent
an inquisitive. Monkeys like Rolo and Daisy have prehensile tails,
which they use as a third arm.