Marmoset Found in California
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 1st, 2006
A tuft-eared marmoset was found on Tate Street, Palo Alto, San Mateo County, California, on June 27th, running along a backyard fence, according to media reports. It is of unknown origin, and is rare in the pet trade, being a native of Central and South America.
The easily captured primate will probably be flown to Primarily Primates, a sanctuary outside of San Antonio, Texas, according to press accounts. As Craig noted here at Cryptomundo, however, there are management problems at Primarily Primates, a fact that does not appear to be known by the authorities at the humane society in California.
Photos courtesy of NBC San Diego.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Escaped exotic pet?
Very interesting. I would wager it is an escaped exotic pet.
LOL! That looks like Cruella De Vil mixed with a Pekingese.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say FIRST AMERICAN PRIMATE!
Re-frased, Exotic pet.
The usual explanation for animals out of place is, “escaped or abandoned exotic pet”, and I’m going to go with that in this case.
If he had been found further south I would speculate that he was waiting tables, going to auditions, and trying to shop a script around, but since he was so far north I’m going to go with the popular escapee theory.
Someone has lost a pet that they paid a huge amount of $$$ for.