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The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Hall

RARE PHOTOS: Abandoned monkey found in laundry bag on london bus | Rare Historical Photos

A female marmoset in a wire cage. She has greyish fur with a pale face and near-white fluffy ears.
The female common marmoset has been named Oyster, after the London transport payment system, and is said to have settled in ‘really well’ at a sanctuary. Photograph: RSPCA/PA

A “stressed and dehydrated” monkey has been found in a laundry bag on a London bus in what animal welfare charities warn could be the “first of many” abandonments now owners must obtain primate licenses.

The female common marmoset was discovered on a 302 bus waiting in Kensal Rise, north-west London, on Friday by a passenger whose buggy was obstructed by the bag containing the monkey in a cage. The monkey has since been named Oyster after the London transport payment system.

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