The Cute and the Sinister: Huggable Primates

The Pygmy Marmoset is the "storybook-cute" kind

The Pygmy Marmoset, looking like a reincarnated Furby (did you already forget about those? - a must-have toy in 1998), is the world’s smallest monkey. They range in length from 5 to 6 inches not including the tail, which is an amazing 6 to 8 inches in itself. Their name comes from the French word marmouset, meaning “shrimp” or “dwarf”. LINK

Bug-Eyed Pygmy Tarsier Primate Rediscovered in Indonesia

One of the world’s smallest and rarest primates — the pygmy tarsier — has been spotted by scientists 80 years after they were thought to have become extinct, in a mountaintop cloud forest on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Pygmy tarsiers are small primates with dense gray to dark brown silky fur to keep warm in a damp, chilly habitat, weighing about 2 ounces (50 grams). They’re typically about 4 to 6 inches long with elongated hind limbs and a thin, tufted tail of about 8 to 12 inches that provides balance and support.

The adorable little tarsiers cling vertically to trees and leap from trunk to trunk, capable of jumping almost 10 feet (3 meters). LINK



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