In the remote Eocene period the same temperate lands were inhabited by lemurs in the East, and by curious animals believed to be intermediate between lemurs and marmosets in the West.
The former include the Marmosets (Hapale) and the Tamarins (Midas).
The range of the Marmosets and Oustitis (Hapalidae) is nearly co-extensive with that of the Monkeys proper.
Of the New World, or Platyrrhine, Apes, the Marmosetscome to be described first, as they have many characters which mark them out as the lowest of the Anthropoidea, and rank them nearer to the Lemuroidea than any of the others.
The Marmosets are all gentle and playful in disposition, and are, on this account, very largely brought to Europe as pets; but they are very delicate, and rarely survive long in confinement after the advent of the Northern winter.
The external surface of the cerebral hemispheres is almost as little convoluted as in the Marmosets and Tamarins, in which it is almost quite smooth, yet on the inner faces of the hemispheres the more important grooves (sulci) are present.
Marmosets can be bought for a quarter of a dollar each.
The smallest of the little marmosets weigh less than a pound and a half each, and are the most intelligent animal of their size known to man.
But the little marmosets and the Pinche monkey, all in a cage together, are chiefly interesting here.
Another thing that many seem to be ignorant of, even some who keep marmosets as pets, is that a marmoset's chief food should consist of insects.
This type is encountered in a large group of new-world monkeys, including the marmosets and howlers.
The marmosets have a long crescentic-shaped caecum, turning the concavity of the curve upwards and to the left, terminating in a blunt point.
Besides these nematodes, Physaloptera dilatata is found in the stomach of American monkeys, and Ascaris distans also (in the large intestine of marmosets more particularly).
They were procured from the marakina (Midas rosalia), from two other true marmosets (Hapale ursula and H.
Callithrix sciureus and in one of the marmosets (Hapale melanurus).
Marmosets are very easily tamed, and they are so gentle in their ways, and so engaging in their habits, that if only they were a little more hardy we should most likely see them in this country as often as we see pet cats.
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