Pygmy Marmoset

Species

Macken Murphy

Nature, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This episode opens with a crime in Australia, and then takes us to South America to learn about the amazing pygmy marmoset. We answer some cool questions today:

What is the difference between a monkey and a primate? What defines a species? Do pygmy marmosets always have twins? What is a fingerling? Do pygmy marmosets fart when you touch their heads, and do they lick pee?

This episode also ends in Australia: Macken finally gets around to reading the Australian 5-star reviews.

Bibliography:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10LdciSatuHi8izLGJIYEJLlArB3qmQ15fmwXrXSMQgQ/edit?usp=sharing

Transcript

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0:00.0	Sunday, November 27th, 2016.
0:11.3	Australian police stop a vehicle outside the Appan Hotel southwest of Sydney, Australia.
0:18.6	Two brothers in their 20s, Jesse and Jackson George, are sitting in the car desperately trying to hide their captive.
0:26.6	A baby, pygmy, marmoset.
0:34.6	The tiny monkey is a mere four weeks old, a tailed ball of fur smaller than your index finger.
0:42.3	The police open the car door and find the animal during a search.
0:48.3	The brothers are arrested and brought into the station for interrogation.
1:02.2	That night, the police find the baby's 10-month-old sister, Sophia, 12 miles away in the Campbelltown area.
1:10.0	Sophia and the infant are returned to their mother,
1:12.8	but their father, Gomez, is still missing. The three monkeys, the infant, Sophia, and Gomez,
1:19.8	had been discovered missing from Simbio Wildlife Park on Saturday morning. On Monday, the police
1:26.2	oppose bail so they can continue to extract information from the two
1:31.4	criminals. They demand Jackson tell them where Gomez is. Jackson laughs in their faces and says to them,
1:40.6	quote, you have my phone. You'll work it out. End quote.
1:47.3	Luckily, they don't have to work it out. Later that day, Gomez appears unharmed on a vet's
1:53.4	doorstep, left in a box by an unknown stranger. The family is reunited and returned to Simbo Wildlife Park. The family clings to
2:04.0	one another. The mother feeds her children. All is as it should be. But why did these young men
2:11.1	risk their youth to kidnap a group of tiny monkeys? Why did the police put such resources and effort into the search?
2:20.3	What's the deal with this little creature?
2:22.1	Who is our miniature cousin?
2:23.7	How do they live? Where are they from?
2:25.4	How did they evolve? Why do they matter?
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