Here’s another new species for me — Geoffroy’s saddle-back tamarin, a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin. Tamarins are squirrel sized monkeys. They can be difficult to photograph because they’re pretty quick and usually high in trees. This one stopped for just a second to take a look down at me below in a boat. Captured in Loreto, Peru. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 1600, f/5.6 at 1/200th of a second, Godox v860iii fill flash.
Hi Mom, they do not have prehensile tails. They are considered primitive monkeys because of this, they don’t have opposable thumbs, they have claws and other anatomical and reproductive characteristics.
Imagine how humiliating it must be for other monkeys to consider you primitive. They’re up there flinging their poo all around, and then they look down at you and are like “oh yeah, that guy is primitive.” Ugh.
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Here’s another new species for me — Geoffroy’s saddle-back tamarin, a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin. Tamarins are squirrel sized monkeys. They can be difficult to photograph because they’re pretty quick and usually high in trees. This one stopped for just a second to take a look down at me below in a boat. Captured in Loreto, Peru. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 1600, f/5.6 at 1/200th of a second, Godox v860iii fill flash.
Oh my, look at that long tail. Do they use their tails to wrap around tree branches?
Hi Mom, they do not have prehensile tails. They are considered primitive monkeys because of this, they don’t have opposable thumbs, they have claws and other anatomical and reproductive characteristics.
Imagine how humiliating it must be for other monkeys to consider you primitive. They’re up there flinging their poo all around, and then they look down at you and are like “oh yeah, that guy is primitive.” Ugh.