10% of their diet is prey including insects and frogs. Only 6,000 golden headed lion tamarins remain in the wild. Their decline is a result of severe habitat loss and climate change that decreases ...

Luís Paulo Ferraz, executive director of the Golden Lion Tamarin Association ... “We leave from Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday morning and head down to Punta del Este, to Uruguay, and start ...

Lion tamarins take their name from their impressive manes—thick rings of hair reminiscent of Africa's great cats. The golden lion tamarin may be the most beautiful of the four lion tamarin species.