Keeping Marmoset requires a special legal permit and one of the most significant requirements is having a primate specific veterinarian close by. If your monkey requires taking medication to get well after exposure to a virus, it can be distracted by marshmallows. You can do this by keeping your monkey and its habitat clean, washing your hands frequently, and avoiding cross contamination. Like humans, Marmoset easily contract colds and viruses, even HIV and other “human disease” so its important to exercise the same caution with them as you would your entire family. Since their brain stimulation is one of the most important factors of their care, providing them with meal worm and bugs twice per weak will hold their attention for some time. They enjoy many human foods such as fruits, vegetables, pasta, rice, eggs, fish and meat. Canned Marmoset food and biscuits are common, but the Marmoset get bored quickly of the same foods and will require you switch it up for them. Their quick-to-bore personalities play into their diets as well. Their cages should be cleaned frequently and requires a heat lamp. Things like ladders, tunnels, slides, mirrors, hammocks, and plants will give them things to do with their time. One way to give them sufficient brain stimulation is to provide them lots of obstacles and toys in their cages. When a Marmoset feels emotionally neglected, it will let out high pitched shrills and shrieks, become destructive, and even may bite or scratch itself for attention. Even if you give him/her a partner, you will be expected to spend 90% of its waking hours with it during its maturity.
Housing a Marmoset alone in a cage would be setting your keeping up for failure. In the wild, Marmoset are emotional creatures that fulfill their needs within groups. Marmosets require much more, and once made captive, cannot be released in the wild to fend for themselves.Ĭute and docile for the first few months Marmosets are bottle fed, they reach sexual maturity around 18-24 months and act more like human teenagers unpredictable, hungry for attention, and aggressive if they do not get it. Their overpopulation is much like that of the overpopulation of dogs and cats not being cared for. The most experienced keepers can breed them, but breeding more Marmosets is not recommended. Marmoset monkeys are native to South America mostly, but due to their over population in the pet trade, can be found all over the world.
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