Won t Someone Please Think of Brazil s Least-Adorable Marmoset?
The wildly uncharismatic buffy-tufted-ear marmoset needs a boost.
Won t Someone Please Think of Brazil s Least-Adorable Marmoset?
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The buffy-tufted-ear marmoset isn t as beloved as its cuter counterparts. Courtesy Rodrigo Bramili
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In 1979, When Rodrigo Carvalho was nine years old, his mother took him to Rio De Janeiro’s largest outdoor market, Feira Nordestina, where more than 600 vendors from Brazil’s Northeast region came to sell their wares. These include food, folk medicine, handicrafts and cages upon cages of wild animals. “I very much remember the snakes, because I was always fascinated by snakes,” Carvalho says. “But there were turtles and monkeys and thousands of birds.”