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Sunday, November 2, 2014

New World Monkeys...Platyrrhini

"Platy" means "flat" in Greek. These monkeys have flat noses with the nostrils pointing out toward the sides of the nose.

The two that we discussed were the marmosets and the tamarins.

Marmosets
The pygmy marmosets are the smallest monkeys in the world








Tamarin





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