Two lively, chattering young marmosets are growing up in San Francisco without the slightest notion of what “rare specimens” they are. They have a very great distinction of surviving birth in captivity.
Naturalists say that this type of New World monkey is often born in captivity but usually the captive mother has a perverse way of immediately neglecting her young and the tiny creatures have almost never been known to live.
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