Any South American monkey (platyrrhine) species in either of two families: marmosets (Callitrichidae) or South American monkeys other than marmosets (Cebidae), including capuchins and spider monkeys.
From the world's smallest monkey, the pygmy marmoset weighing as little as 4 ounces to the world's largest monkey, the mandrill weighing as much as 77 pounds.
Other primates, like macaques and marmosets, demonstrate similar patterns, so it's likely that gloss perception is something that developed a long time ago in our shared evolutionary history.
Now that we learned all about what's happening while I'm sleeping, I wanted to tell you a little bit more about me, Penelope Sanders, the pygmy marmoset.
One of the hallmarks of being a hominid is having opposable thumbs: stronger, longer and more flexible than the thumbless hands of a spider monkey or the non-opposable thumbs of a marmoset.
Although, fun fact, in modern French, a marmoset is called a " ouistiti" , which is the word that French people use instead of cheese when they take a photo.
However, it actually harks back to an old French use of the word " croquer" to mean to knock, and a marmot as an old word, not for a marmoset, but for a door knocker.