Uglorable! » golden lion tamarins http://www.uglorable.com Ugly? Adorable? Uglorable! Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:34:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 golden lion tamarin baby http://www.uglorable.com/2008/04/16/golden-lion-tamarin-baby/ http://www.uglorable.com/2008/04/16/golden-lion-tamarin-baby/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:31:24 +0000 Kento http://www.uglorable.com/?p=120 I really like golden lion tamarins. They have always appeared to me to be a creature out of fantasy rather than reality. They’re both so alien and familiar.

From Wikipedia:

    The Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) also known as Golden Marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Cebidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the Golden Lion Tamarin is an endangered species and among the rarest animals in the world, with an estimated wild population of 1,000 individuals and a captive population of approximately 500. [more...]

Via Steve Harris’s Flickr Photostream!

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