marmosets

• “While the number of experiments on new world primates, such as marmosets, increased by around 250, those carried out on old world primates, such as macaques, fell by 590.”

  The Guardian: Number of animal experiments performed in UK labs falls

• “Other mammals that are found only in this ecoregion, or in few other places, include an armadillo Dasypus septemcinctus, bats (Platyrrhinus recifinus, Natalus stramineus, and Molossops greenhalli), primates such as marmosets (Callithrix argentatado), tamarins (Saguinus midas), night monkeys (Aotus infulatus), and savanna foxes (Cerdocyon thous).”

  Marajó varzea

• “While they work the city streets, the blue macaws have their own problems including being ambushed by a tribe of marmosets trained in the Brazilian martial art of capoeria among other adventures.”

  The Huffington Post: Zorianna Kit: Movie Review: "Rio"

• “The tiny marmosets subscribe to monogamy while the enormous orangutans of Borneo and Sumatra prefer the single life with the occasional tryst in the trees.”

  The Huffington Post: Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love?

• “For at its core, Super Tiny Animals was an out-and-out freak show; only it wasn't the cats with next to no legs, the dwarf horses – yes, horses can get dwarfism – the barely-visible marmosets or the borderline hydrocephalic dogs that were the freaks.”

  The Guardian: TV review: Super Tiny Animals; Bobby Fischer: Genius and Madman

• “He regarded me the way my nephew looks at pygmy marmosets at the Bronx Zoo.”

  The Huffington Post: Erica Abeel: When Cutting Off Your Arm Is the Solution

• “Rio" is densely populated by antic creatures, among them a swarm of thieving marmosets, a toucan named Rafael and a villainous Aussie cockatoo, Nigel, who is voiced by Jemaine Clement, of "Flight of the Conchords," and who serves as a sort of bulldog to a smuggler with the black heart of a Bill Sykes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Animated 'Rio': A Witty Carnival of Brazil Nuts

• “Can the James brothers – "the curly-haired marmosets" – have been better than Lewis Jones?”

  The Guardian: My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating

• “Did you hear any of the stories about Brennen involving marmosets, funnels and hydrogenation?”

  The Re-Up | ATTACKERMAN

• “The green-glowing marmosets, and other transgenic animals that glow, are used by scientists to gain insight into genetic diseases.”

  Boing Boing

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