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  • From: Carrie McLaren <stay.free AT verizon.net>
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  • Subject: [monkeywire] Abandoned marmoset gets a toy mum
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:00:53 -0500

Toy monkey stands in for marmoset's mum
Updated 23 July 2003, 18.46

Photo at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/animals/newsid_3091000/3091307.stm

When Marmite the tiny monkey was born, his mum didn't take to him.

The rare tufted-ear marmoset was left on his lonesome - until his keepers brought in a toy monkey to keep him company.

In the wild, marmosets cling on to their parents. Marmite's getting plenty of cuddles from the toy monkey, so hopefully he won't miss his mum too much.

His keepers at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire are hoping that Marmite's real mum, Michelle, will grow to like her son.

She rejected him after a particularly painful birth, but she seems to be getting better now.

In the meantime, Marmite's keepers are feeding him using a tiny syringe.




  • [monkeywire] Abandoned marmoset gets a toy mum, Carrie McLaren, 07/24/2003

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