1. Geoffroy’s Tamarin
By BK

2. Geoffroy’s Tamarin
Taxonomy
• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Primates
• Family: Callitrichidae

3. Physical Characteristics
Long Tail
Sharp Claws
White Front
Black face
Black spots on brown Back

4. Reproduction
The Geoffroy's Tamarin is a mammal, which
means it gives live birth. Geoffroy’s Tamarins
are usually born as twins but can be born a
single or triplet. Geoffroy’s Tamarin in the
wild live in average groups of ten but can live
in groups up to forty. Gestation for the
Geoffroy’s Tamarin is 140-170 days. They
usually mature at 10-18 weeks and leave there
parents at 15-25 weeks. Also the whole group
cares for the young.

5. Natural Habitats
• The Geoffroy’s Tamarins natural habitat is
South American rain forests. Including
Panama, N.W Columbia, Costa Rica, wooded
areas, tropical and subtropical. The Geoffroy’s
Tamarin is Arboreal(meaning lives in
trees),Territorial(meaning lives in a certain
area), and nests in trees.

6. Diet
The Geoffroy’s Tamarin eats:
• Spiders, wild fruit, insects, bird eggs, leaf
buds, flowers, small lizards and frogs and plant
gum.

7. Fun Facts
The Geoffroy’s Tamarin can:
• Cling to the side of a flat tree
• Jump from tree to tree almost never falling
• Runs quadrupedaly(means four legs at the
same time)

8. Endangered?
The Geoffroy’s Tamarin is not endangered but
is on the vanishing animals list.

9. Physical Adaptations
• Sharp claws: Cling to side of tree
• Sharp teeth: Sip sap out of tree
• long tails: Makes it easier to climb
• Scent gland: Helps with mating and reproduction
• Sharp claws: Helps makes a nest
• Strong digestive system: Swallow seeds whole
• Strong legs: Run quadrupedally
• Strong legs: Jumps from branch to branch
• Loud voice: Calls to other if in danger
• Canines larger then Incisors: Helps suck gum out of
trees

10. Behavioral adaptations
• Eats seeds whole: less time in open
• Makes nests up high: avoids predators
• Calls to other when in danger: avoids
predators
• Runs quadrpedally: Jumps further, is faster
• Eats seeds whole: helps expel Parasites

11. Zoo Habitat
• In the Cleveland Metro Parks zoo the
Geoffroy’s Tamarin has four different
habitats. In one of them there is just one and
a Shaw elephant. Another shares a cage with
a Hairy Armadillo and a Reed Titi. Finally in
the last cage there is just one Geoffroy’s
Tamarin.

12. Improvements about the Geoffroy’s
Tamarin zoo Habitats
• Needs another Geoffroy’s Tamarin to keep them company
• Needs more space because in the wild they have a lot
• Have live prey to hunt because that is how they eat in the
wild
• Let them live outside in packs because that is how they live
in the wild
• They should move the Geoffroy’s Tamarin away from the
exit so they don’t have as much commotion
• They should combine all the Geoffroy’s Tamarin Habitats so
they can all live together
• They should have a big tree with tree gum and insects in it
because that is how they get food in the wild

13. Good things about the Habitats
• It is good they gave them tree branches to run
on because in there natural habitat that is
how they get around
• It is good that the trees are tall because they,
in the wild, live up high to avoid predators
• It really good that they have boxes to mimic
hollowed trees because that is how they sleep
in the wild