Creature Awaits #218
Each week I plan to feature an amazing creature, admiring God's fantastic artistry. Hopefully it’ll brighten someone’s day to see something new and interesting if they haven’t seen it before. : )
Continuing with bright, sunny colors in our summer features! 🌅🏝️
(A brilliantly-captured still taken by fantastic photographer, William Warby (CC BY 2.0))
The Golden Lion Tamarin
Scientific Name: Leontopithecus rosalia
Region: A small region of forests along the southeast coast of Brazil
Size: About 10.3" (~26.1cm) tall, not including their extremely long tail
Interesting Notes: These beautiful and bright golden monkeys are very energetic and social animals, living in troops of 2-8 individuals. (Thus, they don't really make good pets due to their social and environmental needs.) Sadly, their numbers were greatly reduced due to habitat loss; however, thankfully their populations have started to make a comeback due to conservation efforts - raising from their low point of 200 in 1981, back up to roughly 3,200 again in the wild today. : )