Golden Lion Tamarin

A tiny golden primate that nearly went extinct in the 1960s/Small Animals

The golden lion tamarin is a small New World monkey named for its striking reddish-gold mane that frames its face like a lion's. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, these tamarins were reduced to fewer than 200 individuals by the 1960s due to habitat loss. A decades-long conservation effort has brought their numbers back to about 3,700 in the wild. They live in family groups, with the father doing most of the infant carrying. Their long, slender fingers are specially adapted for probing into crevices to find insects and small vertebrates.