How to Use marmoset in a Sentence

marmoset

noun

• For his part, Kobach has evinced all the legal skills of a marmoset.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2018
• The smallest of the them all – the pygmy marmoset, no bigger than a hand – is also the latest to evolve.
  — Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2011
• And a macaque monkey, with a brain 11 times larger than a marmoset, has 10 times as many nerve cells.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2018
• Male marmosets and tamarins lose weight while carrying the young.
  — Time, 17 June 2023
• When alone with a baby begging for a taste, adult marmosets shared their cricket 85% of the time.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Wildlife, including scores of white-tailed and mule deer, a black-tailed marmoset, and a giant anteater.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2022
• There from day one From the very beginning, common marmoset dads are there to help.
  — Bridget E. Hamilton, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• When alone with a baby begging for a taste, adult marmosets shared their cricket 85 percent of the time.
  — Melissa Healy, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2018
• In 2004, a group of capuchin monkeys took in an infant marmoset.
  — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• One was for the deaths of marmoset monkeys that became trapped in their nest box within their cage in August.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
• An autopsy found that the marmoset did not have rabies.
  — Mitchell Willetts The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Native to Brazil, marmosets subsist on a diet of insects and the gum or sap from trees, experts say.
  — Mitchell Willetts The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 26 Jan. 2023
• The staff doesn’t know how the marmoset shifted the divider, but added additional clips to make the cage divider more secure.
  — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• Weighing in at a formidable 100 grams, the pygmy marmoset is the smallest monkey found on earth.
  — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• Yet others are racing to infect macaques, marmosets, and African green monkeys.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 5 Mar. 2020
• Pygmy marmosets are the world’s smallest monkeys as is, so just try to imagine how teensy-weensy their babies must be!
  — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• The pygmy marmosets are deeply adorable, and the snippy gharials would make excellent Muppets.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• The owner of the marmoset is charged with propagation and holding of wildlife without a permit, documents show.
  — Mitchell Willetts The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 26 Jan. 2023
• In 2006, scientists described the adoption of a marmoset by a family of wild capuchin monkeys.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2020
• The team repeatedly performed the French drop for 24 monkeys from three species– capuchins, squirrel monkeys, and marmosets.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• The thief first tried to break into another habitat and steal a marmoset monkey, but was unsuccessful.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2023
• Thirteen other primate species—including baboons and marmosets—make up the rest (see graphic).
  — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 5 Dec. 2019
• An owl monkey, with a brain twice as large as a marmoset, actually has twice as many neurons — whereas doubling the size of a rodent brain often yields only 20 to 30 percent more neurons.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2018
• The group’s previous complaint against Hopkins came in February and was related to the accidental crushing death of a marmoset.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• Per the authors, marmosets climb by spreading their five digits as wide as possible to increase the surface area, flexing all the digits simultaneously to dig in with their claws.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2023
• Researchers have detected Zika in capuchin monkeys and common marmosets, which both reside near humans in Brazil.
  — Aimee Cunningham, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
• When this occurred, the capuchins and squirrel monkeys anticipated correctly, while the marmosets missed out on their reward.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• Slow lorises, raccoon dogs, and pygmy marmosets are just a few of the wild animals that have become famous by posing and interacting with people on YouTube and other social media sites.
  — National Geographic, 26 Jan. 2017
• The elaborate petting zoo includes a herd of tame fallow deer along with a menagerie that includes reindeer, wallabies, marmosets, coatimundis, mini horses, pygmy goats and more.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 15 June 2018
• Every year millions of animals—African grey parrots, marmosets, meerkats, poison dart frogs, pythons, seahorses, whip scorpions—are plucked from the wild and moved around the world for commercial purposes.
  — National Geographic, 26 Feb. 2016

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