Tarsier
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TARSIER, the Anglicized form of the scientific name of a small and aberrant lemur-like animal, Tarsius spectrum, inhabiting the Malay Peninsula and islands, and typifying a family.
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(tär´sr), small, nocturnal, forest-dwelling prosimian primate, genus Tarsius. There are at least three species found in the Philippines, in Sumatra and Borneo, and in Sulawesi. Tarsiers are about 6 in.
Tarsiers feed on insects and lizards and also small fish and crabs. When seizing its prey, the tarsier closes its eyes tightly to protect them from injury during the victim's struggles.
The tarsiers are the members of the Tarsius genus of prosimian primates, monotypic in the Tarsiidae family and Tarsiiformes infraorder. Strange looking tiny night creatures...
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A tarsier is a small primate, weighing around 150g. It has remarkably large eyes, each one the same size and weight as its brain. A tarsier's hindlimb length is the result of elongation of the foot's tarsal bones, unique among mammals.
Lariang tarsier (Tarsius lariang)
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Tarsiers are small primates, weighing 80 to 150 g. Their fur is velvety or silky and buff, grayish brown, or dark brown on the back and grayish or buffy on the underside, generally resembling the color of dead leaves or bark.
Tarsier coloration varies between buff-gray and beige. They have long hind legs and long, skinny fingers and toes to help them climb and leap. As nocturnal animals, their huge eyes and big ears help them see and hear in the dark.
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Tarsiers are small, nocturnal, arboreal primates with enormous eyes.
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Tarsiers are small mammals with enormous eyes.
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Philippine Tarsier, once considered a prosimian, now predominately considered a haplorrhine ...
The Philippine Tarsier Is Listed As A Near-Threatened Species
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Tarsiers display many characteristics of both prosimians and anthropoids; these terms are no longer used as true taxonomic categories, but are often used instead of Haplorhini and Strepsirhini when discussing basic morphology.
of our current knowledge the first primates evolved between 60 and 70 million years ago with genera like Plesiadapis, within about 10 to 20 million years this early group had split into sections, the prosimians which gave rise to Lemurs and Tarsiers ...
The tarsier, which ranges from the Philippines to the East Indies, it is usually considered intermediate between the lemur and the New World monkey. The cobego , misscalled the Flying lemur , is not a primate but a member of the order Dermoptera.
Strepshirhines (lemur-like)
Haplorhines (tarsier-like)
Both the lemur-like and the tarsier-like primates were represented by several species in the Eocene fossil record of southern California.
Once thought to be nearly silent, the Philippine tarsier has merely been talking on a higher channel.
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These adaptations are typical of leaping mammals, whether they are Woodland Jumping Mice hopping over the forest floor, kangaroos making speed in open terrain, or tarsiers leaping from tree to tree in a tropical forest.
The Prosimian group is a sub-order of monkeys, very distinct from the anthropoids (sub-order anthropoidea, including monkeys, apes and humans). The prosimian category includes Lemurs, Lorises, and Tarsiers, ...
of mammals that includes lemurs, galagos, lorises, pottos, monkeys and apes. Primates are subdivided into two groups, the Strepsirhini and the Haplorhini. The Strepsirhini include lemurs, galagos, lorises and pottos. The Haplorhini include tarsiers, ...
Primates also include familiar animals, such as the chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys, as well as the somewhat less familiar lemurs, lorises, galagos, pottos, sifakas, indris, aye-ayes, and tarsiers.
 See also: Monkey, Lion, Lemur, Sea Lion, Mouse
  
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