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what the hell is it?

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Hi Kris. Don't really know. I just came across it by accident and found it interesting.

Some kind of weird little monkey, I reckon.

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Hmmm... I've seen monkeys that small, but not with such wookie-ishness.

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Baby pygmy marmoset, maybe?

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Nice guess, soz, but according to the pic I found below, it doesn't look like it.

http://www.newquayzoo.co.uk/images/Baby_Pygmy_with_Ping_Pong_Ball.gif

The original photo that I came across had no write-up on it identifying the animal. So, I am truly as much in the dark as anyone else.

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I saw that first pic in the paper, sooo cute, I want one.

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If you can be the first to find out what it is, you win a prize.

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Well, babies often look different from the grown-ups.

Here's a picture of a baby pygmy marmoset:

http://xf9.xanga.com/e3a8062bd346844701600/b25707089.jpg

They're the smallest monkeys in the world, so don't know what else your picture could be.

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Here we go. It's an albino pygmy marmoset:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b4878e57-eb2c-43ab-ab0d-4101494c1a3d

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nice work, Soz.

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sozobe wrote:

Here we go. It's an albino pygmy marmoset:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b4878e57-eb2c-43ab-ab0d-4101494c1a3d

Excellent! Thanks for that, soz. May I ask how you found that?

I notice that is from the Vancouver Sun site, which is practically in my backyard. Laughing

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Hi Reyn,

I did a Google News search for "tiny monkey thumb", et voila! :-)

Once I found out what they were, I did another search for "albino pygmy marmoset" and found more articles + pictures, like this one:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/images/060901-monkeys-photo_big.jpg

Only one of the two babies survived, though. :-(

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060901-monkeys-photo.html

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Or I could have just waited for my daughter!

She walked in, saw the above picture, and said, "OH! Marmosets!!" Then she squinted a bit and said, "But I thought they were yellowish/ brownish."

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sozobe wrote:

I did a Google News search for "tiny monkey thumb", et voila! :-)

Once I found out what they were, I did another search for "albino pygmy marmoset" and found more articles + pictures...

Great! Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

Now I can go through my day knowing that I learned something new. Very Happy

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