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A PAIR of marmosets, which for the two past winters have had a free run of our greenhouse and garden (in Buckinghamshire), produced two young ones on May 24. They seem to thrive on freedom and exercise, and the young ones are now beginning to feed themselves. In hot weather they like to remain out all night, but at first they came in to their box in the greenhouse every evening, the male parent always carrying the twins on his back, their little round furry heads merely looking like small excrescences each side of his neck; and only handing them to the mother at feeding-times, and then carefully lifting them back with both hands and settling them into position, where they seem to cling on without being held.
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WHITMORE, D. Pair of Brazilian Marmosets Breeding in England. Nature 60, 199 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060199c0
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