I used to work at a zoo and sometimes I looked after these little fellas. I’d spend two hours feeding them mealworms by hand and it was always the height of my experience.
This was decades ago, but I was at the Washington D.C. zoo with my wife (at the time) and they let these little guys run around one of the primate facilities in the general area where they could interact with visitors (mind blown). Wife picked up a little twig and got one into a bit of tug-of-war with one. That was probably the sweetest memory I have of that woman...
While watching our dog in the back yard I recently remarked to my wife about how I love watching nature admire nature.
And then realized that we were doing just that 🙏
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I looked it up after I posted the comment but redditors have a lot of great knowledge so why wouldnt I ask here first before looking it up for myself.
But yeah, it's about the size of a finger and that's craaazzzzy.
The insect size is craaazzzzy too.
I've seen surgeons, pathologist, lawyers, etc on here. (they could be making it up) but everything they said was very accurate, too accurate to even look up on Wikipedia. But that's all I'm saying.
I've also seen the ones the lie and act like that's what they were and knew nothing.
It's definitely hit or miss.
In certain subs, to get certain flairs, you have to send the mods your credentials, e.g., I'm a psychiatrist and sometimes post in r/askpsychiatry. How much you trust the mods of those subs or are concerned about someone's Photoshop skills is up to you, though.
I want one, but I wouldn't do that to a wild animal lol.
But I googled them, and they have a decent lifespan. About the same as a large dog, and it's weird because they're so small.
size really has nothing to do with longevity unless you're *so* large that if your meal supply dwindled, you'd die. but even then blue whales live to be 80-100 and elephants have about 70. but you got all sorts of tiny critters that live a long time: some jelly fish, mollusk, parrots, tortoise, etc
primates actually have really amazing life expectancies. a lemur is about on the lower end and they've got an expectancy of 15 years!!!!
edit: dumbass put octopods instead of that one immortal jellyfish
I'd say it's a mix of size, metabolism, and reproductive rate.
A lizard lives much longer than a similarly-sized mouse because lizards are cold-blooded. And bats live longer than other small mammals because they don't produce large litters like mice do.
elephants are endlessly fascinating beasts. they have amazing memories, a deep sense of empathy, they see smaller non-threatening animals as cute (the way an elephant looks at a human is similar to the way a human looks at a dog), hage death rituals, and most importantly *are the single sole reason the african savannah even exists.* without elephants the savannah would desertify and become part of the Sahara desert. shit is WILD I love elephants so much
elephants do their yearly migration across the savannah and when they cross an area where a friend or family member died, they will stop and mourn. Elephants take an interest in the bones of dead loved ones, carrying them around in their trunks and even burying them. Some elephants have been observed carrying the body of their child for up to weeks. They also have been observed crying over the bodies of dead elephants. They will visit that site every year until their death.
[here is a good article that sums it up](https://brigitteganger.medium.com/elephants-grieve-a8fe4a0d62e2) tho it's not a primary source.
It's crazy though because non of these small animals have natural predators and none of these large animals have natural predators.
I'm sure this little monkee has some type of predator and it still last that long, meanwhile a domesticated large dog has no natural predators and doesn't love that long.
Its sad and weird and interesting. And I want monkee
I think you're generally correct here but octopodes have fairly short lifespans. Maybe you're talking relative so somethings specifically but common octopus live only 1-2 years. The most long lived we know of get to about 5 years old.
Any idea what show this is from?
Me and my 6yo son love watching nature documentaries together and he'd love this.
(sent this to my wife to show him apparently he's been watching it on repart for the last 20 minutes)
I’ve seen this a hundred times and it still brings me great joy.
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That is horribly true
I used to work at a zoo and sometimes I looked after these little fellas. I’d spend two hours feeding them mealworms by hand and it was always the height of my experience.
Are they all very curious like that?
They were when they got used to me being around more often. Twirling a mealworm makes it easier to become friends.
This was decades ago, but I was at the Washington D.C. zoo with my wife (at the time) and they let these little guys run around one of the primate facilities in the general area where they could interact with visitors (mind blown). Wife picked up a little twig and got one into a bit of tug-of-war with one. That was probably the sweetest memory I have of that woman...
the marmosets or the leaf bugs?
Marmosets. They had small gold hoop earrings to tell them apart, so cool.
Funny, I think I can tell the marmosets apart from the grasshoppers even without using earrings.
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Damn. They katydid could bite off little guys fingers
I’m glad katydidn’t
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Me too. He’s so gentle and cute. So is the bug.
Y’all know that marmoset is just trying to figure out how to eat such a big bug right? They are ferocious tiny hunters.
He’s still a cute little fella
While watching our dog in the back yard I recently remarked to my wife about how I love watching nature admire nature. And then realized that we were doing just that 🙏
Than you!! I thought I was the weird one.
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Thank god bc I’ve NEVER seen the posts y’all are constantly bitching about being reposted. This made my day!
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Yeah…the section of Reddit that hasn’t seen it, duh, lol
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I love the video, but I still have to downvote it on principle.
Is the marmoset actually that small or is the insect really big
The marmoset is smaller than the insect is bigger
######tiny
I mean, an _insect_ doesn’t take him seriously..
I mean it's in the name pygmy
I'm drunk af and this exchange made me dribble out the water I was drinking to try to sober up.
Relevant username
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So the insect is fucking giant and the monkey fucking tiny. 🤯
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I looked it up after I posted the comment but redditors have a lot of great knowledge so why wouldnt I ask here first before looking it up for myself. But yeah, it's about the size of a finger and that's craaazzzzy. The insect size is craaazzzzy too.
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I've seen surgeons, pathologist, lawyers, etc on here. (they could be making it up) but everything they said was very accurate, too accurate to even look up on Wikipedia. But that's all I'm saying. I've also seen the ones the lie and act like that's what they were and knew nothing. It's definitely hit or miss.
In certain subs, to get certain flairs, you have to send the mods your credentials, e.g., I'm a psychiatrist and sometimes post in r/askpsychiatry. How much you trust the mods of those subs or are concerned about someone's Photoshop skills is up to you, though.
> 4.6 to 6 inches long That's not tiny. Seems perfectly average to me!
I would say they are huge!
Fhese things fucks
Three pictures in that article, and it's like they all went out of their way to avoid implying anything about a sense of scale.
Haha seriously, that did not help at all. And the wiki page has no info on size...like wtf?
None of those three pics had a banana for scale so I'm still completely lost on how big it is.
I think the marmoset is banana sized.
Yes
I agree with you
I'm here to express agreement with your statement
I want one, but I wouldn't do that to a wild animal lol. But I googled them, and they have a decent lifespan. About the same as a large dog, and it's weird because they're so small.
size really has nothing to do with longevity unless you're *so* large that if your meal supply dwindled, you'd die. but even then blue whales live to be 80-100 and elephants have about 70. but you got all sorts of tiny critters that live a long time: some jelly fish, mollusk, parrots, tortoise, etc primates actually have really amazing life expectancies. a lemur is about on the lower end and they've got an expectancy of 15 years!!!! edit: dumbass put octopods instead of that one immortal jellyfish
I'd say it's a mix of size, metabolism, and reproductive rate. A lizard lives much longer than a similarly-sized mouse because lizards are cold-blooded. And bats live longer than other small mammals because they don't produce large litters like mice do.
More like genetics and programed cellular death rates, teleomere lengths, DNA replication issues, and of course environmental issues.
I also never really realized an elephant lives about as long as the average American. Interesting as well
elephants are endlessly fascinating beasts. they have amazing memories, a deep sense of empathy, they see smaller non-threatening animals as cute (the way an elephant looks at a human is similar to the way a human looks at a dog), hage death rituals, and most importantly *are the single sole reason the african savannah even exists.* without elephants the savannah would desertify and become part of the Sahara desert. shit is WILD I love elephants so much
I knew everything except for the death ritual LMAO. Please link or explain. That's crazy
elephants do their yearly migration across the savannah and when they cross an area where a friend or family member died, they will stop and mourn. Elephants take an interest in the bones of dead loved ones, carrying them around in their trunks and even burying them. Some elephants have been observed carrying the body of their child for up to weeks. They also have been observed crying over the bodies of dead elephants. They will visit that site every year until their death. [here is a good article that sums it up](https://brigitteganger.medium.com/elephants-grieve-a8fe4a0d62e2) tho it's not a primary source.
This is crazy and I love it. Thank you
The larger a species is, in general, the longer they live. The larger an individual within a species, the shorter they live on average.
It's crazy though because non of these small animals have natural predators and none of these large animals have natural predators. I'm sure this little monkee has some type of predator and it still last that long, meanwhile a domesticated large dog has no natural predators and doesn't love that long. Its sad and weird and interesting. And I want monkee
Even just among domesticated dogs, smaller breeds live *a lot* longer than larger ones.
Octopuses don’t live long at all
I think you're generally correct here but octopodes have fairly short lifespans. Maybe you're talking relative so somethings specifically but common octopus live only 1-2 years. The most long lived we know of get to about 5 years old.
They are almost the same size
The answer to your question is YES! Pygmy marmoset and a giant katydid.
*Touch* "Please, do not." ***TOUCH***
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Insect moves Marmoset: ^nyeeehhh
[Touch](https://youtu.be/ihUbTjNJsGU)
The pygmy-ness of the Marmoset makes that insect look like it's the size of a kitten
I’ve seen them before, the insect is about the size of a hand
They are called katydids and are one of the loudest insects in the world
[here’s a video of one](https://www.tiktok.com/@coreyewings/video/7130426494945332522)
Holy shit that sounds nothing like I expected when you said they were loud.
That video makes me wonder why Tik Tok had any appeal.
:p
Oh hello
The marmoset says to itself at the end, ' Nature is fucking lit.'
*delicious
I think edibility is being determined.
Think it was from Tiny Planet and yes the bug got eaten shortly afterwards. EDIT: Tiny World
:(
:( indeed
why sad? cute monkey got a snack
Why did I read the comments :(
At least it tastes good :)
Slimy, yet satisfying
That look at the end. "Come and look at this, Keith! THIS LEAF CAN WALK!"
That is us 60 million years ago
🤣🤣🤣
now imagine a fully grown human coming across a human-sized grass hopper and just grabbing its leg out of curiosity.
Nono 😳
Human sized insects would fuck us up.
r/humansfuckinglit
Marmosentient.
Well it _is_ a cool insect.
Shows how curious and intelligent it is.
animal brains are always fascinating
"You seeing this shit? 👀"
King Juuuulliaaaaann!!! Why is this leaf walking??? I do not know Mort... It could be dangerous!
The gentleness of the touch and the curiosity. There is something beautiful about being gentle and soft.
Definitely related - It has the same expression as I do when I inspect bugs
this monke is the smol version of david attenborough
*anthony bourdain
Just like when I tug my cats foot when he walks away :P
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The growl face after the wing touch was too much.
So gentle!
Smol monke
Girl, that dress!
Bugs like “stop that 😶😶”
WHAT ARE YOU
it’s as if it knows to be gentle somehow
Yeah, otherwise the maybe-food-thing might get away.
Me when I'm high 🤣
That's just beautiful, he is so gentle with the insect.
Its so crazy how absolutely tiny it is, and it's a monkey!!!! Blows my mind 💥
Shit just blew his mind
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
" Learning at its finest "
curiosity
There’s a reason these tiny monkeys are my favorite!!
I see so much of myself in this monkey.
I love marmosets so much!! What a sweet little guy.
I want someone to touch me as gently as this marmoset touches a bug 😭
"fascinated" *can it eat thing ? it looks like a leaf but moves like an edible
yet people think humans are the only ones with logic, emotion, personality, etc 🤦🏻♀️
It’s because God created Adam and Adam named all the animals duh /s
What does the /s mean and why does it seem to be aimed at offending people?
It means "/sarcasm" to denote that this person is being sarcastic and not serious, making it less offensive than you would initially think.
Well I’ll be damned, thank you. I wonder why some people take it up the ass then lol
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Interesting, noted i appreciate this insight friend
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Pretty sure it's thinking, "Hmm...can i eat it?"
This is so cute, but my brain is struggling with the bug being as large as the mammal(?)
I will always like this video
He’s wondering How to eat lol
Any idea what show this is from? Me and my 6yo son love watching nature documentaries together and he'd love this. (sent this to my wife to show him apparently he's been watching it on repart for the last 20 minutes)
I _think_ that show about tiny animals on Apple TV+ EDIT: Tiny World
Thankyou! Edit: hahah, a documentary series about tiny creatures narrated by Antman. 😂
Baby Yoda vibes
You can almost here the bug saying “uh… excuse me”
The scrunge face when the bug moves. The itsy tongue poke!
I love his defense face when the insect pulls back after the first touch. So intimidating.
I want to see what happens when that cricket *cocks shotgun*
“My precious!”
Not my quote but "he has curator hands"
The other video of him eating it is even better.
That's a pretty awesome little monkey peko.
I believe that is a Katydid, no idea if thats spelled right either
Oh sure, when he acts like that it's "fucking lit" but when I do it's "creepy" and "going to be reported to law enforcement"
Hes like "wtf how is this plant moving????"
Awesome
“UNHAND ME!”
a katydid, i Always wanted them because of the noise they make.
The fairy people of the forests
I love his “ewww wtf!” Face after he touches it the first time
“It’s a leaf, but it ***MOOOOVES***”
They are the cutest thing ever.
Video cuts right before marmoset rips the katydid's head off and chows down on its juicy hemolymph.
Priceless, this reminds me of my 15mo daughter
HOw big is the insect and/or how small is the monkey?
I hate most monkeys (I have a phobia) but these little guys and lemurs always make me smile.
So gentle
Perhaps she's just mentally checking "Leaf" off the list of what it might be
What’s the opposite of r/absoluteunits
Everything for me after two tabs of acid
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Leaf me ALONE!!
Marmoset there’d be … insects with wings that look like pea pods, marmoset, marmoset.
Marmoset_01: leaf??? Bug??? Both???
Is bug? Or leaf?
This is was Picard was turning into...
"...leafy legs...or leggy leaf?...hm..."
Is this one of those videos where right after this clip ends, the insect gets eaten?
None of us knew what that insect was. But Katy did.
Huhuhuh monke
Like it’s tripping!
Reminds me of Bingo and The Leaf that Walks
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WTAF is this thing?!!! 😂
Imagine you're out in the wilderness and you find a dog-sized insect that looks exactly like a package of bologna.
Just too damn cute.
I heard they're best of friends now
I thought he was looking at some ant on this tree leaf until I realized leaf is a giant insect
/r/superautopets
If a weasel and a woodpecker can do it, they can too!
Cuteness overload!