The Caveman’s Corner

After a long hiatus, I bring you another installment of “Meet a Contemporary.” Yayyyyy. School’s out now, so this blog should pick up a bit.

Meet Callitrhix (sometimes Cebuella) pygmaea, or the pygmy marmoset, a contender with the gray mouse lemur, lesser galago, and pygmy tarsier for smallest living primate. They’re cute little buggers and often kept in private homes as pets in the West (not a practice primatologists are favorable towards). For those two reasons, the pygmy marmoset might well be familiar to the reader.

Awww.

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Sorry I haven’t been being terribly faithful with these “Meet a …” things, but I’ve been otherwise engaged for the past week or so. Our very first Meet a Contemporary is at once easy and hard to compose a profile on: Easy because it’s an orangutan and you can find about anything you want on it, but hard because it’s an orangutan and anyone who’s ever watched a nature show knows all the basics already, so it might be a bit difficult to make this interesting.

Meet, the Sumatran orangutan (or orang-utan for our Commonwealth readers).

A P. abelii in the type of suspensory posture typical of the orangutans.

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This will have the same idea as Meet an Ancestor, except I’ll use A Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates. So, look forward to that too.