Teacup monkey

[Ulo Melton]

Back when comic books carried sleazy, deceptive advertising (last week
or thereabouts), Mrs. Ruth Long of Movyland Studios offered to send you
a miniature monkey if you pimped her picture-tinting services to your
friends and relatives (those were weird days):

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So what the hell kind of critter is that? Pygmy marmoset? And if Michael
Vick staged a fight between that monkey and the World's Tiniest Dog
pictured below it, which would win? My money's on the monkey.

[Lesmond]

Post by Ulo Melton
Back when comic books carried sleazy, deceptive advertising (last week
or thereabouts), Mrs. Ruth Long of Movyland Studios offered to send you
a miniature monkey if you pimped her picture-tinting services to your
<http://www.madprofessor.net/nocostmonkey.jpg>
So what the hell kind of critter is that? Pygmy marmoset? And if Michael
Vick staged a fight between that monkey and the World's Tiniest Dog
pictured below it, which would win? My money's on the monkey.

I swear, we've had this discussion before, right here. I can't find it in
Google, though.

But you really would get the monkey.

[Mike Williams]

Post by Ulo Melton
Back when comic books carried sleazy, deceptive advertising (last week
or thereabouts), Mrs. Ruth Long of Movyland Studios offered to send you
a miniature monkey if you pimped her picture-tinting services to your
<http://www.madprofessor.net/nocostmonkey.jpg>
So what the hell kind of critter is that? Pygmy marmoset?

The picture seems to match a pygmy marmoset
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Photogallery/Primates/7.cfm

Pygmy marmosets are the world's smallest true monkeys.

Pygmy marmosets are currently not endangered. However they are listed as
special concern or somewhat threatened. Because of their size, mobility
and coloration, it is almost impossible to count the pygmy marmosets
living in the South American forests. A threat to these small monkeys is
the pet trade.

[Ulo Melton]

Post by Mike Williams
The picture seems to match a pygmy marmoset
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Photogallery/Primates/7.cfm
Pygmy marmosets are the world's smallest true monkeys.
Pygmy marmosets are currently not endangered. However they are listed as
special concern or somewhat threatened. Because of their size, mobility
and coloration, it is almost impossible to count the pygmy marmosets
living in the South American forests. A threat to these small monkeys is
the pet trade.

<http://www.oregonzoo.org/Cards/Primates/marmoset.htm> says of them,
"found in Columbian local pet trade, used to pick lice from people's
hair." Whatever works, I guess.