Golden-handed tamarin

The golden-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas), also called the red-handed tamarin or Midas tamarin, is a New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae. It is native to wooded areas north of the Amazon River in Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname and possibly Venezuela. Its fur is dark brown or black with contrasting golden-orange hair on the hands and feet, which gives it its name, and it weighs 400 to 550 grams. The diet includes leaves, plant exudates, fruit, flowers, eggs, insects and other arthropods, frogs, spiders, lizards and nectar. Life expectancy is about 10 years in the wild and 16 years in captivity. A population south of the Amazon without the contrasting hands and feet was once counted as part of this species but is now treated as the separate black tamarin, and the golden-handed tamarin appears to be displacing the pied tamarin in the pied tamarin's historical range.