The cute creatures are chatty, family oriented—and facing a shrinking habitat in the remote forests of Ecuador A baby pygmy marmoset, under the care of an older member of its cooperative family group, ...

Deep in South American rainforests lives the pygmy marmoset, the world's smallest monkey. This tiny primate, weighing just 119 grams, thrives along riverbanks. Its unique diet of tree sap and insects, ...

What, fellow arsians, what do you think of me getting a monkey? I'd like one that can play baseball, like in the movie Ed. Seriously though, I could go for a chimpanzee, but I'm also thinking of an ...

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