The tiniest of…trolls?

by Meg on October 29, 2007

You know what I’m talking about—those guys with the wild head of hair, in all different colors? He’s totally one of those.

He’s all, "I am a toy that sits atop your pencil in fourth grade! yaaaaaah!!!" [shaking hair back and forth]


Baby tamarin hanging on…, originally uploaded by Nick Lawes.

OK, it’s really a behbeh Tamarin monkeh. Not a troll.

{ 37 comments }

1 Helene 10.29.07 at 3:08 am

Bleeny tiny monkey

2 Andrea|Nash 10.29.07 at 3:11 am

No I think it’s a tamarind … but probably a seond class tamarind.

3 Jacki14 10.29.07 at 3:13 am

I’d have sworn that hair color was not found in nature!

4 Andrea|Nash 10.29.07 at 3:16 am

By which I mean, of course, I’m not sure it’s a “golden” tamarind; unless it is; in whichcase it’s a first class tamarind :-)

5 DreadPirateScott 10.29.07 at 3:27 am

“Tamarin” is a type of New World monkey.

“Tamarind” is a type of tree which bears a fruit with that same name.

Meg was right on this, guys. :)

6 SeaBreeze 10.29.07 at 3:38 am

Cute Orange Fuzzballs!!! =)

7 Beth 10.29.07 at 3:42 am

I love golden lion tamerins. They used to have them at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago and my parents sponsored them for a number of years. I loved that they lived with a sloth because it’s the most hyper monkeys ever paired with a creature that rarely moves. :)

8 lauowolf 10.29.07 at 4:14 am

Not a troll?
I don’t know about that.
he looks as if he could be a real brat on-line.

9 LeeshaJoy 10.29.07 at 4:17 am

No, it’s a muppet! Like the critters in Dark Crystal, maybe!

10 Darleenie 10.29.07 at 4:35 am

Did anyone else use to cut the hair of those troll pencil things in school?

I totally did. That little is tempting me… hand me the scissors! *snip snip*

11 Darleenie 10.29.07 at 4:36 am

“That little >GUY< is tempting me."

12 hideko 10.29.07 at 4:37 am

That’s amazingly fluffy. I would love to pet it! It looks very soft… *ohsocute*

The MN Zoo has Golden Lion Tamarins, too! Yay!

13 Mia 10.29.07 at 4:47 am

i’m sorry to make an unrelated comment but: we’ll need at least one adorably cute pumpkin picture this halloween!

related comment: those look like the golden lion monkeys in the DC zoo. i didn’t think it was THAT cute until meg put a ‘zar! *flings back and forth on a pencil*’ image in my head.

14 Subhangi 10.29.07 at 5:20 am

Marmalade monkeh.

That ees all.

15 moofyboof 10.29.07 at 5:35 am
16 Kitteh 10.29.07 at 5:50 am

Unrelated, but in response to Mia, there IS an adorably cute pumpkin picture. It’s got a kitteh eet!

17 Decca 10.29.07 at 6:13 am

What a cute little face. And I love that “I’m not sure about any of this” look in his eyes. It’s OK, little guy. We love you.

18 Annie 10.29.07 at 6:28 am

tamarind makes a really tasty tea. tamarin is a really adorable monkey/ troll look alike.

19 Hon Glad 10.29.07 at 9:55 am

In the ‘Golden Compass’ Mrs Coulters Daemon is a Golden Tamarin, if my memory serves me right.

20 NYgirly 10.29.07 at 10:49 am

Did someone use Manic Panic ( http://www.manicpanic.com/dyepage1.html ) in Pumpkin color for Halloween? :)

21 Wincey 10.29.07 at 11:52 am

My senior thesis was coordinated by a golden lion tamarin expert — I just fell in love with the little guys! Thanks for bringing this li’l critter to C.O.! (BTW, he’s a pretty close relative to that pygmy marmoset bebeh you had not long ago.) Loves the New World monkehs — they’re the cutest!

22 Theresa 10.29.07 at 12:17 pm

“I am a toy that sits atop your pencil in fourth grade! yaaaaaah!!!” ??

Nay, I say graduate school!

23 jen 10.29.07 at 12:21 pm

awwwwwwww. i’ve never had one of these in my pencil case! [pouts]

24 Melinda 10.29.07 at 1:31 pm

Can stick whole monkey in my mouf!

25 berthaslave 10.29.07 at 1:50 pm

These are like the anti-camo monkehs. I believe the larger ones are visible on Google Earth, and they also love Wham and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

26 Kiragirl 10.29.07 at 2:03 pm

Rule # 7 rules

27 Rumi 10.29.07 at 2:06 pm

ROFL, berthaslave!!! Especially the bit about them being visible on Google Earth, *snort*!!

28 ThreeCatNight 10.29.07 at 2:17 pm

I will gladly put said little monk in my coat pocket to keep him warm, if his mama would let me.

29 Mia 10.29.07 at 2:28 pm

Oh that’s right Kitteh I forgot. I’m hoping for a picture of a pumpkin being cute itself-but a kitten-pumpkin will also suffice my halloween needs.

30 Holly 10.29.07 at 3:00 pm

Once again, Meg is spying on my early 80’s life. Troll topper on the pencil. What next? Jelly shoes?

Get out of my head! LOL!

31 Theo 10.29.07 at 3:27 pm

Jelly shoes SHOULD have died in the 80s, but instead they morphed into “Crocs.”

See the next post for a better idea.

32 RJ 10.29.07 at 4:27 pm

It may not be a troll, but boy, that’s best impression I’ve ever seed…

I loved jelly shoes. I’m thinkin’ ’bout the Crocs….

33 chanpon 10.29.07 at 5:03 pm

He’s just in time for Halloween. He’s perfectly orange.

34 Madeline 10.29.07 at 5:07 pm

That little guy is totally going to post on CO and be all “Oooh, that picture’s not cute…IT’S SAD!! It’s cruel to let a beebee monkey be seen in public with hair like that! Take this picture down NOWS!”

But it’s harder to fit those kinds of trolls on the end of pencils!

[not THAT kind of troll, heh... - Ed.]
[good idea, though; guess I'd better order some pencils...]

35 Kar 10.30.07 at 1:38 pm

Awww. Remember no matter how weird looking. That’s somebody’s beautiful baby.

And every bride is beautiful on her wedding day. No matter what the dress looks like.

36 Cody-kun 10.30.07 at 2:29 pm

suuuure Kar ^.^ *giggles*

and Leesha I just watched the Dark Crystal last week ^O^ now I want to watch it again

*pokes the golden monkey*

37 Tiberia 10.30.07 at 10:51 pm

It’s Bebeh New World Cheezit Munkeh

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