Oedipus Research Paper

The Saguinus Oedipus (Cotton-Top Tamarin) is a very unique creature. The Cotton-Top Tamarin gets its name from its appearance. The Cotton-Top Tamarin name comes from the way that it's fantastic crest of long white hair is flowing around its black face like a mane of white cotton. Their limbs are a whitish-yellow color and as well as their chest. They have brown shoulders and a brown back. They are covered with very thick fur. Their tail is reddish-orange towards the base and black towards the tip. They have a very small body. From their head to their body not including the tail, is 21-26 centimeters long. This monkey has a very long tail. Their tail is 33-40 centimeters long. Their tail is used for balance. They weigh from 300-400 grams, Their top speed is 40 km/h (24 mph). Like marmosets and other tamarins,the ancestral primate nails on their toes and fingers have evolved into claws on all but their big toes, allowing them to climb in a squirrel like …show more content…
Their diet is an omnivore. It is important for Cotton-Top Tamarins to have a high quality, high energy, diet because of their small body size, limited gut volume,and rapid rate of food passage. They are known to feed off of the gum produced by trees in its natural home, its rainforest home. They also eat nectar, insects, fruit, and rodents. When they hunt a small mammal, it only takes one bite to the head to kill their prey. Out of everything that Cotton-Top Tamarins eat, their favorite food is fruit. Insect hunting techniques employed by a Cotton-Top Tamarin include stealth, turning over leaves, exploring crevices, pouncing, and moving rapidly to the ground to seize their prey. When cotton-top tamarins consume Orthoptera prey, they get certain worms that attach to the lining of the gut and cause inflammation, lesions, and death. Cotton-Top Tamarin groups are territorial and will use scent-marking to indicate that it is their turf if they have