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Monday Evening Marmosets (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  August 23, 20215:05 pm| 73 Comments

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I dropped this in the morning thread just before a new post went up, but it’s front page-worthy. Just look at those adorable creatures!

Pygmy Marmosets eating peas for a snack. The English Peas look so much BIGGER!!

pic.twitter.com/2BuSOnojnZ

— Chuck And Jim ?️‍? ????? #IDWP (@fireman452a) August 18, 2021

I like how they have individual eating styles. The one on the left tries to eat the entire pea at once, whereas the others daintily munch theirs like a human eating an apple. I want to go to wherever that place is and feed the marmosets too!

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    Citizen Alan

    August 23, 2021 at 5:10 pm

    They don’t even look real to me. They look like something found in Newt Scamander’s suitcase.

  2. 2.

    MazeDancer

    August 23, 2021 at 5:11 pm

    Also love that they have mixed feelings about pea peel. Which I did not even realize is an aspect of peas.

  3. 3.

    Suzanne

    August 23, 2021 at 5:11 pm

    I’m in hysterics.
    COVID-19 outbreak among Cyber Ninjas staff delays delivery of full Arizona Senate audit

  4. 4.

    Van Buren

    August 23, 2021 at 5:12 pm

    I was going to have fettuccine for dinner, but now I want peas.

  5. 5.

    Roger Moore

    August 23, 2021 at 5:14 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Next week their excuse will be a hard drive crash.  Then a dog eating their paperwork.

  6. 6.

    Roger Moore

    August 23, 2021 at 5:16 pm

    My favorite thing I’ve read today:

    Pfizer has full FDA approval! Guess what that means for Texas?Greg Abbott’s exec order only bans vaccine mandates for those approved under emergency use. Time to move some goal posts! pic.twitter.com/EirsQWXeIi— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) August 23, 2021

    This could provide a convenient excuse for Abbot to back down. I sincerely doubt he’ll take it.

  7. 7.

    Suzanne

    August 23, 2021 at 5:16 pm

    @Roger Moore: This is the most hilarious bullshit.

    Do they genuinely believe that they will convince anyone?!

  8. 8.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    August 23, 2021 at 5:17 pm

    @Suzanne: That is MAGA perfect.

  9. 9.

    MomSense

    August 23, 2021 at 5:28 pm

    Ultimate squeeeee!

  10. 10.

    Roger Moore

    August 23, 2021 at 5:29 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Do they genuinely believe that they will convince anyone?!

    Their main goal is to justify the decisions they’ve already made.  Their secondary goal is to fire up the base.  Convincing anyone who didn’t already believe is way down the list.

  11. 11.

    raven

    August 23, 2021 at 5:31 pm

    @Van Buren: My bride made a gargantuan effort at growing butter beans out at a friend’s farm this summer. The first harvest she got maybe a gallon zip lock full. Tonite she’ll eat the second batch that came to about a cup. It’s a good thing she loves them because it was a lot of work!

  12. 12.

    Geo Wilcox

    August 23, 2021 at 5:31 pm

    If you don’t chew up the peas you do not digest them and you end up with peas in your poop. My daughter proudly announced this when she was a little kid. I about peed my pants laughing. “MOM THERE’S PEAS IN MY POOP!!!!”

  13. 13.

    sixthdoctor

    August 23, 2021 at 5:33 pm

    Those marmosets are cute.

    But I prefer corgi racing.

  14. 14.

    Another Scott

    August 23, 2021 at 5:34 pm

    Looks like the independent “citizens” on the VA Redistricting Commission are standing up. BlueVirginia.US:

    See below for highlights (courtesy of Sierra Club associate attorney Ankit Jain and VAPLAN), as well as video from this morning’s VA Redistricting Commission meeting, which was HIGHLY revealing and somewhat dramatic, actually, with citizen members actually WINNING something for a change over the gerrymanders – mostly Republicans but also Sen. George Barker (D). To date, of course, this commission’s been a fiasco, almost exactly what many of us warned would happen (see The Predictable – and Predicted – VA Redistricting Commission Debacle in Graphics, Bob Holsworth: “Given the composition of the [Redistricting] Commission, the most likely agreement is one where incumbent protection is a primary driver”, Chris Ambrose: VA Redistricting Commission “travesty that was pushed on the voters by a disinformation campaign by OneVirginia2021”, [UPDATED with HIGHLY Revealing “Hot Mic” Moment] “Anyone who doubted that the redistricting amendment was a total partisan sham should have those doubts erased now.”, etc.). This morning, though, the citizen members – mostly Democrats but also, surprisingly, Republican member Mackenzie Babichenko – asserted themselves forcefully, pushed for drawing maps from scratch (and not starting from preexisting, gerrymandered-for-incumbent-protection maps), and actually WON. What a concept, eh? Anyway, check it out…very interesting!

    […]

    Much more at the link.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  15. 15.

    Roger Moore

    August 23, 2021 at 5:34 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: ​
     
    It’s peak 2021.

  16. 16.

    Sure Lurkalot

    August 23, 2021 at 5:35 pm

    @Van Buren: Fettuccine with prosciutto and peas is quite delicious.

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 23, 2021 at 5:35 pm

    They are truly adorable. So freaking cute.

    ETA: Should clarify, in case it’s not crystal clear: I’m referring to the marmosets, not the cyber ninjas.

  18. 18.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2021 at 5:38 pm

    Eat up, little guys.  Almost as cute as baby bats.

  19. 19.

    Ken

    August 23, 2021 at 5:40 pm

    Monday marmosets are cute, but remind me that it’s been a while since we’ve seen Mr. Frog.

  20. 20.

    Johannes

    August 23, 2021 at 5:40 pm

    “Trust no one, little marmoset. For nobody around you is worthy of trust…”—Herod Agrippa (per R. Graves).

  21. 21.

    Elizabelle

    August 23, 2021 at 5:40 pm

    @sixthdoctor:   I’ve been to some wiener dog races.  Love them.

  22. 22.

    dmsilev

    August 23, 2021 at 5:41 pm

    @Suzanne: Apparently trace amounts of bamboo don’t protect against COVID.

  23. 23.

    Albatrossity

    August 23, 2021 at 5:46 pm

    I saw pygmy marmosets in Ecuador. They are cute beyond words. And apparently very rare in the wild.

  24. 24.

    rikyrah

    August 23, 2021 at 5:47 pm

     

    Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) tweeted at 0:08 PM on Mon, Aug 23, 2021:
    Kicking out military members who refuse to get the COVID19 vaccine would probably also eliminate the vast majority of the Proud Boys, white supremacists, and Neo-Nazis who have infested the military. So, a win-win!
    (https://twitter.com/TheSGTJoker/status/1429853145430114306?s=03)

  25. 25.

    JoyceH

    August 23, 2021 at 5:48 pm

    @Roger Moore: 

    What’s lovely about that is that you know they wrote the ban that way in order to keep vaccine mandates that already exist. It banned the COVID vaccine without saying they were banning the COVID vaccine. But yay to the FDA.

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 23, 2021 at 5:48 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Few things are quite as cute as baby bats ?

  27. 27.

    stinger

    August 23, 2021 at 5:48 pm

    @sixthdoctor: Por que no los dos?

  28. 28.

    Suzanne

    August 23, 2021 at 5:48 pm

    @dmsilev: I’m sure they got the COVID that was on those ballots from the Chinese paper that was delivered here….last year. Or something. I will enjoy the excuse!

  29. 29.

    JoyceH

    August 23, 2021 at 5:50 pm

    @rikyrah: The “QAnon Shaman” was discharged from the Navy for refusing a vaccine, so it does appear to be a good crackpot filter.

  30. 30.

    RSA

    August 23, 2021 at 5:52 pm

    It’s hilarious the way one of them reaches out to pick up a pea and, the moment he has a good grip, jams it straight into his mouth. No pause to look at it more closely.

  31. 31.

    CaseyL

    August 23, 2021 at 5:53 pm

    Marmosets and tamarins are just the cutest creatures imaginable.   I wonder what they’re like – if they’re rather sweet, as  primates go, or horrors.

    Many, many years ago, I volunteered at a private animal sanctuary.  I lasted maybe a month, and discovered via experience that I really don’t like monkeys.  Or at least not the macaques who lived at the sanctuary.  I was babysitting a baby macaque, letting it roam semi-freely around a large yard bordered by some kind of berry bush – I think blackberries, because the bushes were thorny.  The little one perched on my hands to get at the berries, which was fine.  Then it looked like it was about to overbalance and fall into the bushes (with the thorns) so I pulled it back.

    The baby was infuriated at being denied access to the berries.  Launched itself at my head, scratched my face pretty badly, and bit my ear, drawing blood.   The proprietors were sympathetic, but their suggestions about how to deal with the macaques involved “behaving like an Alpha,” which I was not comfortable doing.

    I want to note that the proprietors were good people, and their animals were happy and healthy.  They may well have been correct that I didn’t know how to come across to the macaques as someone to respect – but I was, honestly, just not comfortable doing what it would have taken to achieve that.

    So that was that.

  32. 32.

    Johannes

    August 23, 2021 at 5:57 pm

    Yes please, baby bats are adorable.

  33. 33.

    AnthroBabe

    August 23, 2021 at 5:58 pm

    AHEM as a biological anthropologist, I APPROVE OF THIS TWEET

    OMG SQUEEEEE

    CaseyL: Macaques are notoriously the assholes of the primate world. They are a toxic mix of super smart and assholery.  I am sorry you were injured!

    Oh, as an Arizonan to the Cyber Ninjas: Thppt!

  34. 34.

    dmsilev

    August 23, 2021 at 6:00 pm

    @Suzanne: I feel quite confident that they’ll come up with some excuse that we haven’t thought of that will be mind-blowingly stupid. Just based on past performance, that is.

  35. 35.

    dmsilev

    August 23, 2021 at 6:01 pm

    @AnthroBabe:

    Macaques are notoriously the assholes of the primate world. They are a toxic mix of super smart and assholery.

    Wouldn’t humans win that contest? Oh, wait, “super smart”. Never mind.

  36. 36.

    Mo Salad

    August 23, 2021 at 6:02 pm

    Marmoset, there’d be days like this. There’d be days like this, my marmoset.​

  37. 37.

    SuzieC

    August 23, 2021 at 6:03 pm

    @Suzanne: what a bitch is karma.

    The second marmoset from the left gobbles food like my junior cat–greedily.

  38. 38.

    zhena gogolia

    August 23, 2021 at 6:08 pm

    I love their eyes!

  39. 39.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2021 at 6:09 pm

    The critters remind me of the best Energizer bunny spoof: Chateau Marmoset.

  40. 40.

    Roger Moore

    August 23, 2021 at 6:09 pm

    @JoyceH:

    They wrote the ban the way they did because “I don’t want to take an experimental (sic) vaccine” was already on the list of wingnut anti-vax excuses.  They didn’t appreciate it had a strictly limited lifespan.  My prediction is that their first response will be to say the ban is still in effect as long as some of the vaccines are available on an EUA basis, since otherwise people might be pushed into taking them.  I don’t think they’ll have a leg to stand on, but it’s a plausible first go.

  41. 41.

    prostratedragon

    August 23, 2021 at 6:10 pm

    @Suzanne:  That got a spontaneous chuckle out of me too. How on-brand can you be?

  42. 42.

    Suzanne

    August 23, 2021 at 6:11 pm

    @dmsilev: Can we turn this into a drinking game? Or a Bingo card?

    ”Every time they blame Trump’s loss on “illegal Mexicans bringing in Covid”, we take a shot.”

  43. 43.

    Nora Lenderbee

    August 23, 2021 at 6:11 pm

    @Mo Salad:  Hahah!

  44. 44.

    CaseyL

    August 23, 2021 at 6:12 pm

    @AnthroBabe: 

    Macaques are notoriously the assholes of the primate world.

    I’m glad to hear that, because it makes me feel less like an idiot. And maybe the next non-human primates I have a chance to interact with won’t be assholes!

  45. 45.

    prostratedragon

    August 23, 2021 at 6:17 pm

    @Johannes:  Ah, another fan. Herod A. and Claudius were my first thought.

  46. 46.

    Ken

    August 23, 2021 at 6:20 pm

    @AnthroBabe: Macaques are notoriously the assholes of the primate world.

    Is this one of those discussions where humans are left out of consideration, because otherwise there’s nothing to discuss?

  47. 47.

    dmsilev

    August 23, 2021 at 6:21 pm

    @Suzanne:

    ”Every time they blame Trump’s loss on “illegal Mexicans bringing in Covid”, we take a shot.”

    I value having a functional liver, so I’ll pass on that one.

  48. 48.

    prostratedragon

    August 23, 2021 at 6:21 pm

    @Mo Salad:  Your hat, sir or ma’am.

  49. 49.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 23, 2021 at 6:22 pm

    @Mo Salad:

    LOL

  50. 50.

    Kattails

    August 23, 2021 at 6:24 pm

    @Suzanne: Drinking game with that set-up? I hope to be needing this liver for a bit more time than that & it’s already been an extremely challenging year for that particular organ.  Knock yourself out though.   ;-)

    Pygmy marmosets are OMG so cute, love the way they eat the middle out and leave the husk. And those teeny-tiny hands.

  51. 51.

    AnthroBabe

    August 23, 2021 at 6:28 pm

    @dmsilev: They are pissed we use them as medical subjects (the Rh factor? Macaques)

  52. 52.

    Ryan

    August 23, 2021 at 6:34 pm

    If they ever do a remake of 2001, this needs to be a part of it.

  53. 53.

    Betty Cracker

    August 23, 2021 at 6:35 pm

    Speaking of asshole monkeys, a friend once told me the funniest story I’ve ever heard about his encounter with a neighbor’s spider monkey. The monkey wasn’t the asshole in this scenario — it was just scared, probably, and it was in an outdoor cage at night, which must have sucked for it. The kid was the asshole because he got the idea to scare the monkey by jumping on the cage. It did not go well.

    He scared the monkey alright, which grabbed the strings on the kid’s hoodie and repeatedly slammed his face against the cage, then used the strings to nearly strangle him. In the ensuing struggle, the cage popped open and the monkey climbed on the kid’s head and bit his ears while ripping out little monkey fistfuls of hair.

    The kid ended up crawling into the cage and slamming the door to escape. The monkey screamed at the kid through the bars until its owner came out to restore peace. The guy is a really good storyteller — you could see it unfold when he told it. But poor monkey! The kid learned a lesson — monkeys, even small ones, are strong! He grew up to be a funny guy who loves animals but steers clear of monkeys.

  54. 54.

    Baud

    August 23, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    That story needs a video.

  55. 55.

    Fake Irishman

    August 23, 2021 at 6:48 pm

    @JoyceH:

    I can confirm your very perceptive observation from reading a lot of sample legislation that’s been introduced banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates in a variety of areas. The next goalpost move is to not allow mandates for any vaccine that hasn’t had an FDA approval for at least 3 years, (because we need to see more safety data dontcha  know)

  56. 56.

    Ken

    August 23, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I think we’ve identified the gene that makes us the pathetic weaklings of the primate clade. But it also makes us the endurance champs, so we may not want to reverse it.

  57. 57.

    Fake Irishman

    August 23, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Yep. Another way is to have a waiting period the FDA approval has to be in effect before you can mandate use (three years seems to be what the wing nuts are settling on in the legislation they introduce)

  58. 58.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2021 at 6:54 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Damn, that’s quite the boy v. monkey battle royale.

    Knew a gal in college who casually mentioned the folks kept a gibbon at home. I knew not to question whether that was true but I was sure curious about the details of living with a pet gibbon. Maybe they had a gibbon wrangler too, she came from money.

  59. 59.

    Betty Cracker

    August 23, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    @trollhattan: Damn! Gibbons are pretty loud, aren’t they?

  60. 60.

    rikyrah

    August 23, 2021 at 7:03 pm

     

    3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) tweeted at 9:08 AM on Mon, Aug 23, 2021:
    111 Afghan school girls escape Kabul safely

    https://t.co/lzO8z0pf2J
    (https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1429807639630958593?s=03)

  61. 61.

    Dan B

    August 23, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    @AnthroBabe: My partner was afraid of snakes and infatuated with monkeys.  Mid way through our first visit to Costa Rica he was disavowed of this prejudicial viewpoint when the large monkey threatened he and a friend, venomous large sharp teeth bared, on a hike.  The two snakes just lay still and our visit to the Serpentarium, complete with private tour by dark haired and handsome proprietor, where it became apparent that we were surrounded by poisonous snakes that really wanted to be left alone.  His view changed.  The little monkeys that came in a band of ten every morning to our cabin were a different story.

    My partner has the same desire to be nice to animals and make them happy.  Horses love biting him.

  62. 62.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2021 at 7:14 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Oh yes, we have them at the local zoo and you can sometimes hear them blocks away. An amusing video from a photo forum.

    Was hoping she’d take a sufficient shine to me that I’d find out in person. Alas, not to be. Gorgeous, funny, drove a 4-4-2. Sigh.

  63. 63.

    Dan B

    August 23, 2021 at 7:17 pm

    @zhena gogolia: The big moussed hair is also fun – so 80’s!

  64. 64.

    Betty Cracker

    August 23, 2021 at 7:24 pm

    @trollhattan: Oooo, a 4-4-2? I’d consider switching teams for that!

  65. 65.

    trollhattan

    August 23, 2021 at 7:46 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Yeah, quite possibly worth it. :-)

  66. 66.

    Gin & Tonic

    August 23, 2021 at 8:17 pm

    There was a woman in Connecticut some years ago who had a pet chimp which, for some reason, ripped her face off. Literallly. No, not a leopard.

    She ended up having multiple very complex surgeries and IIRC is permanently blind.

  67. 67.

    TerryC

    August 23, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    @trollhattan: I had an anthro prof at Umich who maintained a squirrel and an African grey parrot at loose in his house. Very bitter man. Lots of, um, debris on the floors.

  68. 68.

    TerryC

    August 23, 2021 at 8:19 pm

    @TerryC:

  69. 69.

    Johannes

    August 23, 2021 at 8:20 pm

    @prostratedragon: so glad to not be out on that limb alone! Just reread the books this summer, so they were fresh in my mind.

  70. 70.

    Mary G

    August 23, 2021 at 8:56 pm

    @Van Buren: @Sure Lurkalot: Now I want carbonara.

  71. 71.

    Salty Sam

    August 23, 2021 at 10:11 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Speaking of asshole monkeys,…

    I knew a guy in college who had a spider monkey, a neurotic little beast who, whenever a person unknown to him came into the room,  would jump onto his little perch in the corner of the room and begin to masturbate furiously.

    Dude said it was a real buzzkill whenever he brought a date home…

  72. 72.

    Nutmeg again

    August 23, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    @Salty Sam:  Yep–my ex’s family had a Gibbon for a while (in SE Asia). Evidently a nasty bastard, even though the cage was the size of a small house. Still, yeah. Not something I would be comfortable with.

    Anyone else notice that it appears a couple of the little Marmosets have (maybe) poop on their heads? I wonder if that’s what happens when they are having fun, but they’ve eaten too many green peas.

  73. 73.

    cleek

    August 24, 2021 at 8:23 am

    marmoset, marmoset

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oiLfTnrC40

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