Lion tamarins take their name from their impressive manes—thick rings of hair reminiscent of Africa's great cats. The golden lion tamarin may be the most beautiful of the four lion tamarin species.

A black lion tamarin has been born at Jersey Zoo as part of work to help the species avoid extinction. The three-month-old baby tamarin, named Grace, is part of a species the Durrell Wildlife ...

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, when food becomes scarce a lion tamarin family travels to the edge of their world to find a land of plenty. Journey distance: 5 miles Destination: A cabruca - a ...

The Department of Zoological Research at the National Zoo in Washington, DC houses three pairs of lion- tamarin monkeys (Leontopithicus rosalia rosalia and L.R.chrysomelia) and one pair of marmosets ...

Join a world-class effort to save tamarins from the brink of extinction in Brazil’s most critically important forest. Seeing a family of golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) in the mystical ...

Zookeepers have welcomed the arrival of twin golden lion tamarins. The infants, born at Bristol Zoo Gardens last weekend, are living with their mum Missy, dad Dourado and older siblings Manchego ...

Biologist Carlos Ruiz has spent a quarter-century working to save golden lion tamarins, the charismatic long-maned monkeys native to Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Thanks to painstaking reforestation ...

The golden lion tamarin is a unique-looking creature with a bright orange mane that resembles a lion. Most female tamarins give birth to twins, and the males are hands-on fathers. Unfortunately, these ...

Creating new enrichment devices is one of the most challenging aspects of our job. Various enrichment devices were successfully tried with our golden lion tamarins and saddle-back tamarins such as ...

When the World Tropics Building opened in 1992, then-director Gregg Dancho said the exhibit was part of a new chapter for the ...

The Atlantic Forest has been decimated by deforestation over centuries, but thanks to international efforts, the number of golden lion tamarin monkeys has rebounded from as little as 200 individuals.