Is there a monkeh in all that fluff?

by Meg on October 16, 2007

Bebe-est of monkehs, (at least I think there is a monkeh in there) here, hangin’ on a finger.

Large_baby_pygmy_marmoset

Via TravellersPoint.com, spotted on Digg and by Rachel W.

{ 79 comments }

1 MamaDawn 10.16.07 at 1:18 pm

I want a mini monkey ring!

2 nico 10.16.07 at 1:21 pm

this miniature monkey would make a perfect birthday present for me!!!

3 Gabriela Delworth 10.16.07 at 1:27 pm

Hello from Toronto,
I loooove your blog and your lovely animal photos!

Gabriela

4 lurkingsmirk 10.16.07 at 1:30 pm

What a little guy! Quietly gripping teh fingers with ALL 4 PAWS! *incomprehensible babbling*

5 Pheas 10.16.07 at 1:30 pm

Mini monkeh can ride on the world domination bunneh! Please wear a tiny cowboy hat and bandanna. That is all.

6 DKN 10.16.07 at 1:32 pm

OMG!!11!!1 It’s a real, live Monchichi!

:ploit:

7 newlee 10.16.07 at 1:33 pm

would make a cool ponytail holder, way better than those scrunchies.

also, “pocket pets” categorization, maybe?

8 kmira 10.16.07 at 1:34 pm

OMG – it IS a monkey ring! He could bounce around all day whilst I type and I could give him teeny little sammiches!

9 pyrit 10.16.07 at 1:36 pm

In a teeny jungle
With teeny vines
Eating teeny bananas
Far from any power lines
There lived a teeny monkey
Making teeny monkeyshines

10 Alex 10.16.07 at 1:37 pm

I don’t tink tis a muhnkee. Tis a prosimian, ruhlated to duh muhnkees.

11 Cat (Short for something "Cat" is short for.) 10.16.07 at 1:43 pm

Oh. My. Gawd.

DO WANT.

12 NYgirly 10.16.07 at 1:44 pm

oh my..
i think i just got monkey fever ^^

13 jen 10.16.07 at 1:49 pm

i can’t even wrap my head around this bizarre over-the-top cuteness. good lord.

14 Leslie 10.16.07 at 1:52 pm

I hope he’s not one of the monkeys that grows up all red-butted and cute-challenged.

15 Rumi 10.16.07 at 1:53 pm

“Monchhichi, Monchhichi!
Oh, so soft and cudd-el-y!
With his thumb in his mouth
he’s really sweet;
it’s fun to play
with his little feet!
Happy, happy Monchichi!

I love you, Monchichi!”

ADORABLE MONKEYPANTS FUZZYHEAD!!!!

16 Wincey 10.16.07 at 1:53 pm

Nope, not a prosimian, because they have doggy-like snouts. This is a New World monkey, and I’m sureit’s a pygmy marmoset, ’cause that’s smallest. (New World monkeys have those flat noses.)

17 RevWaldo 10.16.07 at 1:54 pm

“ENH! Now are you gonna come along quiet-like, or am I gonna hafta muss ya up?”

18 Metz 10.16.07 at 1:58 pm

Oh thank goodness you found my ring!
(puts on finger)
This is the rarest gem in all teh world a Monkaz.
Guards finger from other would be ring claimants.

19 Em 10.16.07 at 1:59 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_marmoset

Trufax very marmosett-y. Esp. when you look at the baby albino twins in the links.

20 Metz 10.16.07 at 1:59 pm

RevWaldo: ROFL!
Yes! Soooooo perfect!

21 zeldapie 10.16.07 at 2:13 pm

I want a pygmy marmoset! Want want want! eeeeep!

22 WannaSmile 10.16.07 at 2:24 pm

I loves dis monkeh

23 cozytailmom 10.16.07 at 2:32 pm

Squeeeeee!!!
He looks like a bebeh Ewok!

24 liz 10.16.07 at 2:32 pm
25 Hon Glad 10.16.07 at 2:45 pm

A marmite-oset. Tasty.

26 STRega 10.16.07 at 2:47 pm

I must have one!!!!

27 Pheas 10.16.07 at 2:53 pm

Deep heem in champagne, and you have zee marmosa! Delish.

28 Keith Handy 10.16.07 at 3:04 pm

Great for attaching to the eraser end of pencils too!

29 kk3 10.16.07 at 3:08 pm

MONKEY LOVE!!!

30 berthaslave 10.16.07 at 3:31 pm

Don’t forget the rules:

Never get them wet.
And don’t feed them after midnight.

31 Alice Shortcake 10.16.07 at 3:41 pm

I want ONE FOR EACH FINGER!

32 NotSupposedToBeDoingThisAtWork 10.16.07 at 3:47 pm

kmira, teeny little sammiches!! lol!! i just got the best mental pic of him bouncing on your typing fingers with a teeny little sammich in his hand. lolz for Pheas & Pyrit too.

and toooooooo prosh monkeh!!!! ahn! serious head asplosions going on over here.

33 Peanutcat 10.16.07 at 3:48 pm

WTF is that?! A Mini-Ewok?

So impossibly cute . . . . .

34 NotSupposedToBeDoingThisAtWork 10.16.07 at 3:48 pm

p.s. is “fluff head” a Phish ref? ’cause if it is, AWESOME.

[holy crap, there's a thousand monkey children outside, dancing on my lawn - Ed.]

35 Peanutcat 10.16.07 at 3:51 pm

OMG, it’s claws are almost bigger than the rest of it!

36 Aoife 10.16.07 at 3:57 pm

WANT!

37 Aoife 10.16.07 at 3:58 pm

WANT!

38 Annie 10.16.07 at 4:00 pm

:Sploit: The sound of my brain exploding from the cute of the monkey and all the funny comments.

39 luvinmalssomuch 10.16.07 at 4:13 pm

I want one to hang from my visor. I love him.

40 pyrit 10.16.07 at 4:21 pm

Sure. And I want one on my (mon)key chain!

41 Sarah J 10.16.07 at 4:31 pm

Are you sure it isn’t a Dr Seuss character? Cause he kinda looks like one

42 Wendy 10.16.07 at 4:45 pm

DE-LICIOUS.

I want one!

43 Manda 10.16.07 at 4:55 pm

How many could fit in a barrel?
You could stick your hands in and when you pulled them out, you’d have one on each finger. Then you could snorgle each tiny hayed and it’s making me think of ring pops and I can just FEEL THE TINY GRIPPINKS!! AHN!! *Thunk*

44 luvinmalssomuch 10.16.07 at 5:00 pm

He looks like a miniature Chewbacca, but much much cuter.

45 Michelle 10.16.07 at 5:00 pm

Definitely a monkey, not prosimian.

So tiny and delicate. Almost birdlike. His hair even looks a bit like feathers!

46 musicchick2 10.16.07 at 5:01 pm

Here’s a video of one being fed, um, grubs or something equally disgusting. He seems to find it yummy, with his sweet little face. But if you’re squeamish about wormy things, don’t watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnRgdjzs_mA

47 musicchick2 10.16.07 at 5:05 pm
48 Way Cool Groovy Chick 10.16.07 at 5:07 pm

You nailed it, luvinmalssomuch. It’s a pocket sized bebeh Chewbaca. He prolly just says “ehn” instead of “aarrghh” though.

49 luvinmalssomuch 10.16.07 at 5:10 pm

WCGC LOL! I would love to have him but I couldn’t feed the live worms. icky

50 Very 10.16.07 at 5:25 pm

Chewbacca the Monkey?

51 Theo 10.16.07 at 5:32 pm

Aoife — sorry, only 1 to a customer.
;)

52 chicky82 10.16.07 at 5:45 pm

It’s a mini gremin, yikes that is perfect example of why I fear monkeys, look at him, he’s plotting to take over the world, RUN!!!

53 Kiragirl 10.16.07 at 7:12 pm

Hey, hey we’re the Monkees,
people say we monkey around,
we’re too busy living
to put anybody down.

Just tryin’ to be friendly,
hanging on your finger tip.
Fuzzy head bouncin’ round,
hope I don’t lose my grip!

(repeat chorus)
TTFN

54 inktupbbw 10.16.07 at 7:38 pm

Are there any thorough sci-fi geeks like me out there that’ve read H Beam Piper’s Little Fuzzy series? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Fuzzy
This little puff ball looks like a baby one!

55 Steph 10.16.07 at 8:35 pm

I MUST HAVE EEET!!! A mini little pocket monkeh!

“See a little monkeh and put eet in your pockeet, put it in your pockeet!”

56 Kiragirl 10.16.07 at 8:39 pm

“save it for a rainy day.”

57 acelightning 10.16.07 at 9:13 pm

I guess I’m the only person whose first thought was “ugh – is that a tarantula?” (Knowing it’s a monkey does help a little…)

58 my cat is a blob 10.16.07 at 9:55 pm

He’s adorable, but looks so wee and fragile its a bit angsty to look at he.

59 Tina Rhea 10.16.07 at 11:45 pm

I watched them for the National Zoo once. They have two speeds– very slow so they hardly look like they’re moving at all, and “Where did it go?” Both speeds would confuse predators.

60 ZF 10.17.07 at 12:20 am

This is so cute and its a monkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

61 lojolo 10.17.07 at 12:47 am

i want 2, one for each ear, they could hang on to my lobes and be the cutest earrings on the earth.

62 Ilona 10.17.07 at 2:23 am

This monkey looks like a jumping spider

63 oaklandcat 10.17.07 at 3:02 am
64 paulajeanne 10.17.07 at 3:20 am

inktupbbw, yes! I was trying to think of what it reminded me of. Now I’m seeing the cover of the first book.

65 stacy 10.17.07 at 4:19 am

It IS a pygmy marmoset :) They are awesome, they eat gum off of trees (like sap, sorta), and a whole colony will live on the same tree for generations and the trees get little bumps on them, literally wounds that the marmosets cultivate to get the tree to produce more gum. They also practice cooperative polyandry – the females always have twins, and they have two males who both think the babies are theres, so the males take care of the babies to the mom can get enough food. Sooo cute :)

66 leah 10.17.07 at 5:25 am

It reminds me of a muppet.

67 R. Moore 10.17.07 at 6:32 am

I thought it was a spider, too :P

68 Zee 10.17.07 at 7:05 am

I sot ee was a spider, too, at first! He’s cute, tho. His fur/hair resembles a high-grade woolly pom-pom. All too cute!!!

69 jenjen 10.17.07 at 8:05 am

it’s bebeh Oscar the Grouch. Or, would that be Growsche…

70 MegW 10.17.07 at 12:21 pm

I didn’t know Ewoks came in miniature!!!

71 Yitzysmommie 10.17.07 at 2:52 pm

jenjen & zee, I think you’re onto somefin there: A Woolly PomPom Oscar the Growsche!

72 andrew 10.17.07 at 3:52 pm

that is not fluff…get your terms straight..im surprised at you

73 my cat is a blob 10.17.07 at 4:33 pm

I just noticed that he has a little mustachio.
Does zat mean he weel bring to me a little cafe creme and a warm flaky croissant?

74 landy 10.17.07 at 8:32 pm

awe that is so cute!!! i want one!!!!! but it is not as cute as the photo on this one website!!! it is so cute!!

http://www.topblogcontent.com/2007/10/17/these-dogs-are-crazzy-cute/

75 Susan 10.18.07 at 1:00 am

It’s like a dust-mite and a monkey had a baby.

76 Sarah 10.18.07 at 10:32 pm

I think it’s a Marmoset too.

77 Gwenny 10.25.07 at 6:32 am

Zat wot baby Ewoks look lak?

78 Subhangi 10.28.07 at 5:03 am

What TIIIINY monkehtude! One for me too!

79 ElPolloDiablo 10.31.07 at 8:31 pm

*sings* Oohhh, There’s a monkey in my pocket and he’s stealing all my change, his stare is blank and glassy and I suspect that he’s deranged! Internet cookies for anyone who knows where that’s from ;)

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