. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. COMMON MARMOSETS. These gentle little creatures belong to the same family shown in the preceding illustration, and are found in the tropical forests of Brazil. Their movements are so swift that it is diffi- cult for the human eye to follow them as they travel through the branches of their native trees. Their size is about that of the common gray Squirrel. made captive, they scream at the approach of every one, and it is a long time before they allo
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. COMMON MARMOSETS. These gentle little creatures belong to the same family shown in the preceding illustration, and are found in the tropical forests of Brazil. Their movements are so swift that it is diffi- cult for the human eye to follow them as they travel through the branches of their native trees. Their size is about that of the common gray Squirrel. made captive, they scream at the approach of every one, and it is a long time before they allow any one to touch them. Having been once tamed they soon become good friends with people and with other domestic animals, especially Cats, with which they like to play and to sleep, the lat- ter probably because of the warmth afforded. They are for- ever protecting themselves against the cold, carrying all the cotton and rags they can get hold of to a corner of their cage, and covering themselves with it. A pretty sight is afforded when the little animal, lying on its bed, is approached by the keeper, bearing some sweet morsel, for which it extends its dainty head forward. It has frequently happened that Ouistitis have been born in cap- tivity, in Europe [as well as in the United States once, even in St. Petersburg though under very unfavorable conditions. The ani- mals were kept in unheated rooms, even on cool days in Spring and Autumn, and were given no liberty at all, still they gave birth to young ones three times in two years and succeeded in rear- ing them, notwithstanding the small amount of care they received. Pallas' Description We are indebted for their history of the Common to the naturalist Pallas, who says : Marmoset. "The Ouistiti, like all the other little, long-tailed American Monkeys, is much less Monkey than those belonging to families whose members attain larger size. It is quick and agile, but when in a state of contentment it may sit in the sun
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