# Identify the insanely tiny monkeys? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 29, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293 "2006-10-29T00:17:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293/1 "2006-10-29T00:17:27Z")
Can someone tell me what kind of monkeys (insanely tiny monkeys) are in [this picture](http://www.flickr.com/photos/specklet/212599624/)? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293/2 "2006-10-29T00:38:40Z")
If I were going to swag a guess I’d say it was some kind of marmoset (small, New World monkey, genus _Callithrix_) but I can’t identify the species, especially from an immature specimin. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293/3 "2006-10-29T00:43:43Z")
No luck, after 30 minutes of searching. But I’ll bump the Thread. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293/4 "2006-10-29T00:45:17Z")
Looks like a [Golden lion tamarin](http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/EndangeredSpecies/GLTProgram/Learn/) to me. [This picture](http://www.inspirationline.com/images/babyTamirins.jpg) shows an adult and baby, and the baby looks a lot like those in the pic you posted. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293/5 "2006-10-29T00:48:52Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] Looks like a [Golden lion tamarin](http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/EndangeredSpecies/GLTProgram/Learn/) to me. [/QUOTE] :smack: No wonder my image search came up wrong: [Tamarind](http://images.google.com/images?q=tamarind&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wi) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293/6 "2006-10-29T01:14:36Z")
Oh, they’re so _cute_. They gotta be babies, though, and would soon get bigger. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293/7 "2006-10-29T01:21:35Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] Oh, they’re so _cute_. They gotta be babies, though, and would soon get bigger. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but not much bigger. Tamarinds are tiiiiiny. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293/8 "2006-10-29T01:35:20Z")
That ain’t nothin’. Check out the [Pygmy Marmoset](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_Marmoset). 5 ounce monkeys! And those are the males. [Babies](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060901-monkeys-photo.html) are tiny ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293/9 "2006-10-29T01:37:14Z")
[QUOTE=Sierra Indigo] Yeah, but not much bigger. Tamarinds are tiiiiiny. [/QUOTE] Actually, [tamarinds](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarind) are quite big. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293/10 "2006-10-29T03:35:58Z")
I like cute tiny animals, an’ all . . . But _jesus!_ those things are hideous little monsters! They looks like the Zuni fetish doll from _Trilogy of Terror_ somehow breeded with Nicole Ritchie! ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-insanely-tiny-monkeys/378293/11 "2006-10-29T04:19:16Z")
Eve just made me chuckle.