Monkey’s bite.. they bite during play, during regular interaction and they can bite to be mean or get their own way. Just like a child needs to be taught that there are acceptable levels of behavior and unacceptable levels of behavior so will your Marmoset.

Play biting is allowed, it isn’t too hard and won’t break the skin.. likewise gentle biting as interaction…but biting to get their own way or in anger can be painful and you can see they are trying to hurt This needs to be managed during rearing so they understand it’s not allowed. If you don’t train them out of it before they are adults then you could have a problem on your hands..

Many breeders talk about disciplining your baby by pinching it on the butt when it’s misbehaving. I DO NOT condone this pinching at all!!!! You could damage your baby and 9 times out of 10 it just doesn’t work anyway. To discipline I shout loudly (like by saying ouch or stop it) then its time out for that baby. Put your baby in its large cage in “time out” for about 3-5 minutes. This does more for letting your baby know there are consequences for misbehaving.

Remember you aren’t training your monkey to never bite, they use biting in normal interaction so you want to allow them to do that, but you are training them to not bite to get their own way or in anger..

You must be very consistent and in time your baby will catch on that if he/she acts up then its time out time. No baby wants to be left alone for any time in its cage so they usual catch on pretty fast!