Pygmy marmosets born in the Lake District

Two new baby pygmy marmosets are stealing the limelight at Lakes Aquarium at Lakeside near Newby Bridge in the Lake District.

Each baby only weighs around half an ounce. This is amazingly already one sixth of the weight of their parents.



The babies are currently tiny bundles of fluffy fur, but developing faster than older siblings, Marmite and Marmalade, suggesting mum and dad have learned a few things about parenting since having their first litter.

Visitors can watch proud mother and father, now 5.5 and 3.5 years old respectively, carrying their little treasures around on their backs. Dad then hands the babies over to Mum for suckling, which is when visitors really see them well and gasps of surprise arise.