How to Use marmoset in a Sentence

marmoset

noun
  • In the grand scheme of things, that is the blink of a marmoset’s eye.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • For his part, Kobach has evinced all the legal skills of a marmoset.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Male marmosets and tamarins lose weight while carrying the young.
    — Time, 17 June 2023
  • There from day one From the very beginning, common marmoset dads are there to help.
    — Bridget E. Hamilton, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
  • The smallest of the them all – the pygmy marmoset, no bigger than a hand – is also the latest to evolve.
    — Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2011
  • When alone with a baby begging for a taste, adult marmosets shared their cricket 85% of the time.
    — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • One was for the deaths of marmoset monkeys that became trapped in their nest box within their cage in August.
    — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • And a macaque monkey, with a brain 11 times larger than a marmoset, has 10 times as many nerve cells.
    — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2018
  • When alone with a baby begging for a taste, adult marmosets shared their cricket 85 percent of the time.
    — Melissa Healy, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Yet others are racing to infect macaques, marmosets, and African green monkeys.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 5 Mar. 2020
  • In 2004, a group of capuchin monkeys took in an infant marmoset.
    — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Native to Brazil, marmosets subsist on a diet of insects and the gum or sap from trees, experts say.
    — Mitchell Willetts The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Pygmy marmosets are the world’s smallest monkeys as is, so just try to imagine how teensy-weensy their babies must be!
    — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The staff doesn’t know how the marmoset shifted the divider, but added additional clips to make the cage divider more secure.
    — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The pygmy marmosets are deeply adorable, and the snippy gharials would make excellent Muppets.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The thief first tried to break into another habitat and steal a marmoset monkey, but was unsuccessful.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Thirteen other primate species—including baboons and marmosets—make up the rest (see graphic).
    — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Weighing in at a formidable 100 grams, the pygmy marmoset is the smallest monkey found on earth.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • Pygmy marmosets actually have relatively large babies for their tiny size.
    — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The marmoset was then taken to the zoo’s veterinary hospital for immediate care.
    — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Creatures great and small At Perth Zoo, species that were detected spanned in size from the pygmy marmoset to the Asian elephant.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • When this occurred, the capuchins and squirrel monkeys anticipated correctly, while the marmosets missed out on their reward.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
  • One marmoset was seriously injured, and needed to be euthanized.
    — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • In 2006, scientists described the adoption of a marmoset by a family of wild capuchin monkeys.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Studying marmoset neural crest implications, therefore, could shed new light on human development too.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The team repeatedly performed the French drop for 24 monkeys from three species– capuchins, squirrel monkeys, and marmosets.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Researchers have detected Zika in capuchin monkeys and common marmosets, which both reside near humans in Brazil.
    — Aimee Cunningham, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Juvenile marmosets are resilient against social isolation if they are given ayahuasca before their families are taken away.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Scientists have used many different animals as a model of aging in the lab, from microscopic worms and African fish, to mice, macaques, and marmosets.
    — Celia Ford, Vox, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Those primates were mostly macaques and marmosets; the use of chimpanzees (our closest ape relative) is now banned in many countries, including the US.
    — Celia Ford, Vox, 6 Sep. 2024

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