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Emperor Tamarin
Saguinus imperator
Saguinus imperator is a squirrel-sized Amazonian monkey with a long white handlebar moustache that sweeps down past its shoulders, and the name really was a joke — the type specimen's whiskers reminded nineteenth-century naturalists of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the mock-imperial na…
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- Both male and female Emperor Tamarins help care for the offspring, with fathers and siblings often carrying the young on their backs almost as much as the mothers do.
- Twins are the rule rather than the exception, and a newborn pair together can weigh as much as a fifth of the mother's body weight — which is precisely why the males do the carrying. The two tamarin species in a mixed troop respond to each other's alarm calls correctly, distinguishing an aerial-predator call from a terrestrial one even though it is given by a different species. Emperor tamarins will follow the saddlebacks to insect prey flushed out of the understorey, effectively free-riding on their partners' foraging. The moustache is present from birth and is one of the very few primate ornaments that is identical in both sexes.
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