#does anyone in brazil wanna hunt a monkey and take a picture for me? no? ok :(

[selznick]

i just want to make a uquiz about tamarins and use pictures of tamarins for it but now im questioning if these monkies even exist

like there are 2 subspecies for martin’s tamarin but no pictures of either, all that comes up are pied tamarins. the wiki says they used to be a subspecies of pied tamarins until 2001 but two of its sources contradict, ther subspeicies of martins were classified in 1912 and 1966 (unless im readin it wrong and thats also a possibility) and another website says the classification year is 1912 but has no sources under its ‘key references’ section

the only picture/vid i can find online for martins tamarin is a shakey 16 sec long yt vid (the yt channel also had vids of a tamarin not on the wiki list but also not any other images of ot online, fucking mystery there but im ignoring for now, kinda looked similar to the martins tamarin in their other vid tho), the monkey in blurred and far away in it

and like on one hand its good thats theres nothing of it online, it means it was never poached or sold on the illeagal pet trade to make its way into zoos and its not in too populated an area that theres many pictures of them, But on the other hand im half convinced they dont exist

theres another possibility that the local name never was linked to the common english name or the scientific name, which sucks but is possible, and the people in the area it lives by dont know the english name is different so if they upload any photos its by the local name that ill never know

and thast just one tamarin species, there are 12 overall (not inc. subspecies as separate) and only a few are rlly that popular online, most common in photos is cotton-top tamarin and emperor though so at least ill have loads of images of them