Tarsier

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Tarsiers are any haplorrhine primates of the family Tarsiidae, which is itself the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. Although the group was once more widespread, all its species living today are found in the islands of Southeast Asia,More info:wiki

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#10 True Facts About The Tarsier,More info:zefrank1

#9 Press release – Philippine tarsier, one of the world´s most endangered primate, born in Tarsius Project Conservation centre,More info:tarsiusproject

#8 Where To See Tarsiers in The Philippines,More info:theculturetrip

Small yet agile – these are the adjectives that would best describe the Philippine Tarsiers, a species endemic to the Southeast Asian country. Considered as the world’s smallest primate and known for their large, brown eyes, this species has attracted both local and foreign tourists who are curious to know more about the magical creature and its habitat.

#7 Scientists Sequence Tarsier Genome,More info:sci-news

An international team of researchers from the United States and Germany today reports having sequenced and annotated the genome of the Philippine tarsier. The team’s results place tarsiers on an important branch of the primate evolutionary tree — along the same branch that leads to humans, monkeys and great apes.

Tarsiers belong to the 45-million-year-old family Tarsiidae. They are small nocturnal primates that were, together with their presumed sister family, the extinct Omomyidae, once widespread in Asia, Europe and North America, but today populate only insular Southeast Asia.

The tarsier family contains at least 10 extant species that are found in the Indonesian and Malaysian parts of Borneo, the Indonesian islands Sulawesi, Sumatra and Java as well as Greater Mindanao and surrounding islands of the southern Philippines.

#6 Tarsier Facts,More info:interestingfacts

Do you know the smallest primate spends its entire life on trees? Yes! It’s true. Tarsier, an unusual mammal, just keeps clinging to the trunk of the trees, even while sleeping and giving birth to the young ones. Isn’t it amazing? This nocturnal animal has large eyes, a long tail and ears with almost no hair. It is a carnivores animal and can move its ears to determine the location of the prey. The most unusual thing about this animal is its flexible neck that it can turn up to 180 degrees. Tarsier is about the size of squirrel but it has long tail . Since they can’t walk, they hop when they on ground and mark their trees with their urine. Interesting Tarsier fact is that Tarsier is neither a monkey nor a primate. It is something in between.

#5 Tarsier Facts,More info:animalfactsencyclopedia

#4 Decoding of tarsier genome reveals ties to humans,More info:medicine.wustl

Tarsiers – tiny, carnivorous primates – are our distant cousins, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who sequenced and analyzed the tarsier genome. Their findings place tarsiers on the branch of the primate evolutionary tree that also leads to monkeys, great apes and humans.