The world's smolest monkey
March 23, 2023 6:57 PM Subscribe
The pygmy marmoset is the smallest monkey in the world and arguably the cutest. These gummivore rainforest-dwellers are also called pocket monkey, little lion, dwarf monkey, and finger monkey.
They are smaller than an average adult human hand. They weigh less than an apple and about as much as a stick of butter. At birth, they are smaller than a pencil, human thumb, or toothbrush head (insert "new unit of measure just dropped" meme here).
Videos:
Informative:
They are smaller than an average adult human hand. They weigh less than an apple and about as much as a stick of butter. At birth, they are smaller than a pencil, human thumb, or toothbrush head (insert "new unit of measure just dropped" meme here).
Videos:
Informative:
- Meet the World's Smallest Monkey (Nature on PBS)
- Smallest Monkey Turf War | World's Weirdest (Nat Geo Wild)
- Pygmy Marmoset Keeper Talk at Taronga Zoo Sydney (Taronga Zoo Sydney)
- Marmoset Enrichment at RSCF (RSCF)
- Marmoset baby talk (Science Magazine)
- The world's tiniest monkey gives birth to even tinier babies! (Zoo TV)
- 2022 New Twin Pygmy Marmoset Babies! (RSCF)
- Tiny Twins: Baby Pygmy Marmosets (Houston Zoo)
- World Exclusive! Rare baby pygmy marmoset triplet hand reared in Dublin Zoo (Zoo TV)
- World Meet NINITA. Our New Baby Pygmy Marmoset! (RSCF)
- Ninita the World's Smallest Monkey (Odyssey Earth)
- Nininta Gets A Toothbrush Massage (RSCF)
- Ninita's Halloween 2016 (RSCF)
- Tiny World — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ (the first 20 seconds or so features a pygmy marmoset fascinated by a grasshopper)
- Introverted MONKEY Finds A New LOVER! | The Secret Life of the Zoo (Channel 4)
- Pygmy Marmoset Party! (RSCF)
- Adorable Pygmy Marmoset Eats Grape at Taronga Zoo (Taronga Zoo Sydney)
Missing from the "Grabbag" section, above: The Marmoset Song.
posted by wenestvedt at 7:45 PM on March 23, 2023 [7 favorites]
posted by wenestvedt at 7:45 PM on March 23, 2023 [7 favorites]
The early internet was awash with stories of the ink monkey, reputedly kept by scholars in ancient China.
posted by fairmettle at 7:51 PM on March 23, 2023
posted by fairmettle at 7:51 PM on March 23, 2023
More grab bag; Sesame Street creature feature on marmosets.
posted by ActionPopulated at 8:37 PM on March 23, 2023
posted by ActionPopulated at 8:37 PM on March 23, 2023
Ninita is indeed ridiculously cute, I recommend watching the RSCF videos!
posted by tavella at 9:01 PM on March 23, 2023
posted by tavella at 9:01 PM on March 23, 2023
Even though they are the smallest of all the monkeys, pygmy marmosets can leap more than 16 feet.Odd, indeed. They are not a whole lot bigger than the leopard gecko who lives in this house, and he doesn’t leap at all*. I’m very glad he doesn’t leap sixteen feet.
*Well, I tell a lie; the gecko doesn’t leap as a matter of course but once we got some larger than usual mealworms for his dinner. He usual gait when approaching his dinner is somewhere between an intermittent amble and a tentative slink. I am not sure why this one occasion saw him do it differently, but he actually pounced... and leapt all of about five inches to sprawl gracelessly on the floor of his enclosure.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:35 AM on March 24, 2023 [4 favorites]
Cute smol guys, never heard the term 'gummivore' before. Wonderful way to start the weekend with some cute monkey babies
posted by simonsiminsimon at 7:12 AM on March 24, 2023
posted by simonsiminsimon at 7:12 AM on March 24, 2023
never heard the term 'gummivore' before.
My occasional bandmate Chris, since edibles became legal here, now consumes such a steady stream of gummies that he might technically be classified as a gummivore.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:19 AM on March 24, 2023 [2 favorites]
My occasional bandmate Chris, since edibles became legal here, now consumes such a steady stream of gummies that he might technically be classified as a gummivore.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:19 AM on March 24, 2023 [2 favorites]
I'll be enjoying these links for a while, when I need tiny monkey energy.
They remind me, visually, the way their eyes are set and their ears, of Pallas cats. And it's so interesting to see tiny creatures make those quick jerky little movements, as if our big eyes and senses can't deal with the way they move.
posted by winesong at 4:37 PM on March 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
They remind me, visually, the way their eyes are set and their ears, of Pallas cats. And it's so interesting to see tiny creatures make those quick jerky little movements, as if our big eyes and senses can't deal with the way they move.
posted by winesong at 4:37 PM on March 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
These little guys are usually photographed on a banana & they look ecstatic! (Not unlike how I would appear if I were lying on a Snickers bar the size of a couch.)
posted by Wylie Kyoto at 10:21 AM on March 27, 2023
posted by Wylie Kyoto at 10:21 AM on March 27, 2023
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