Neurobiology: learning from marmosets

Vivien Marx | 31 October 2016
Published in Nature Methods volume 13, pages911–916(2016)

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Marmosets somersault, leap and play-wrestle; they might hang from a branch to reach for the fruit they want or huddle together and groom one another. They communicate with a range of postures, facial expressions and vocalizations such as whirrs, chirps, phees and tsiks. This New World monkey, Callithrix jacchus, is native to the forests of eastern Brazil and grows to around 20 centimeters in height with an equally long tail.