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  • noun Plural form of marmoset.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Number of animal experiments performed in UK labs falls 2010

  • 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 2008

  • 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.

    TV review: Super Tiny Animals; Bobby Fischer: Genius and Madman 2011

  • 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.

    Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011

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

    Erica Abeel: When Cutting Off Your Arm Is the Solution Erica Abeel 2010

  • 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.

    Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011

  • 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.

    Zorianna Kit: Movie Review: "Rio" Zorianna Kit 2011

  • 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.

    Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011

  • 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.

    Zorianna Kit: Movie Review: "Rio" Zorianna Kit 2011

  • 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.

    Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011

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