Marmoset Monkey
The information given is from personal experience and not from a scientific journal. I'm not going to bore you with all the scientific facts as no one really bothers about that anyway. I would like to help marmoset owners with the basic info needed to successfully keep marmoset monkeys. There is so little practical information out there and so many people have questions that scientific journals don't address. The general care and diet of captive marmosets is seldom addressed and so the poor marmoset suffers because its owner doesn't know how to care for it properly. I get so many people calling me and asking what their marmoset is supposed to eat and why has their darling pet decided to start biting them. I hope to shed some light on these basic questions in the interest of the poor marmoset that suffers because its owner has not got sufficient knowledge
DIET
The foods listed below are for captive bred marmosets and not the diet a marmoset would have in its natural state. The babies will start to eat soft foods from around 2-3 weeks of age. I will talk about handrearing and when to introduce solids at a later stage. The rule with marmosets is the sooner a variety of foods is introduced the better. They can be very stubborn and if they were not introduced to a certain food when very young will refuse to eat it. Their diet needs to be high in protein.Below is a list of foods you can feed your marmoset. It's by no means a complete list of foods they can be fed most healthy foods. Foods to avoid would be advocado pears, sweets, refined sugars and spicy foods. You are not being kind by feeding your marmoset chocolates and sweets they should be avoided completely. However, you can offer them a marshmallow from time to time as a treat. Some feed raisins but I would not recommend feeding them raisins they are extremely high in sugar.
Fruits
The more variety of fruits you introduce to your marmoset from an early age the better. This list is not complete you can feed them any of the fruits you purchase for your own family. I chop up the fruit into bite size pieces and for the marmoset who doesn't like eating fruit you can pour some fruit flavoured purity over the pieces to encourage it to eat the fruit.
Marmoset monkeys
Marmosets live in groups of 3 to 15 individuals and they are all family members, a group consits of two breeding females, a wandering male from an outside family and their off spring. They feed on fruit and insects and the gum from the sap in a tree, some of these marmosets are specially designed to extract the gum from the trees. Most marmosets are about 8 inches long, there heads are rounded unlike other monkeys and their brains are relitively primitive. They are highly active and friendly to other species of their kindleading to the study that they are not teritorial animals
monkeys.
any of numerous species of small long-tailed South American monkeys. Similar in appearance to squirrels, marmosets are tree-dwelling primates that move in a quick, jerky manner. Claws on all the digits except the big toe aid them in scampering along branches, where they primarily eat insects in addition to fruit, tree sap, and other small animals. Marmosets are active during the day and live in small groups. The gestation period is four to six months, depending on species; twins are the norm, with single births being about as common as triplets. Marmosets have been kept as pets since the ... (100 of 739 words)