Pied Tamarin (Saguinus bicolor)

The night before this shot was taken, our guide spoke of a mystical "bat monkey", half monkey, half bat. As he was drinking, I thought he was kidding, but I decided to push my luck anyway and got up real early the next morning to visit an area of fruit trees, where there'd be a tiny chance to spot them.

There was no need for that though. A troup of five was right above me as I got out of our lodge. They were travelling across the high tree tops very fast and I got frustrated for only shooting blurry photos and the leafs and trees blocking a good view.

Until I got lucky, almost out of sight, for a split second one of them turned around to look back at me. Here it is, the bat monkey, or Pied Tamarin. Extremely rare and almost extinct. Furry, a bat's face and claws and a long tail. Zoom in to see its bizarre face.