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Article: THE RIVERS OF Marmosets.
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- September 22, 2000
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A Brazilian caboclo's jeitinho ("little thing") becomes a Dutch family's Dreumes ("Little Fellow") becomes science's new species--Callithrix humilis, the dwarf marmoset of the Amazonas
The story begins back in April, 1996 when a strange newcomer arrived at the Van Roosmalen household in the Brazilian city of Manaus, the gateway to the Amazon. The newcomer, though as tiny as a mouse, was a baby monkey--but not precisely like any monkey that Marc Van Roosmalen had ever seen.
Knowing that Marc and his wife, Betty, maintain a rearing facility for orphaned primates, a certain caboclo (a backwoodsman of mixed white and Indian blood) offered them the animal ...