Nov
19
2008
Smaller than the Philippine Tarsier
Posted by: Roy in Announcement, In the news, Uncategorized, blog, internet, links, sources, tags: discover, extinct, indonesia, philippine tarsier, pygmy, scientist, small, tarsier
When I thought that the Philippine Tarsier is the smallest tarsier in the world, I read from Yahoo News! that scientist has rediscovered a long-lost tiny primate in Indonesia.
Scientist were surprised yet thrilled at the same time. It took them more than two-months to capture three furry, mouse-sized pygmy tarsiers - two males and one female on Mt. Rore Katimbo in Lore Lindu National Park in central Sulawesi.
A fourth one was able to escape after biting Sharon Gursky-Doyen, a Texas A&M University professor who was part of the expedition.
They were putting a collar the tarsier’s neck so they can track their movement, but the feisty one was able to bite Sharon because the tarsier can rotate their head 180 degrees.
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ang cute ah, san naman yung salewesi? hehehe ano ba yan pati paliitan e natatalo na tayo
wag ka, kahit cute yan, nangangagat yan
ilan po batteries nyan… hehe… parang Furby
Yung Sulawesi po ay sa Indonesia…
hehe… mukhang mali yung pagkaka-intindi ko sa nabasa ko a
ang cute nga, pero mabagsik daw yan
Don’t know if you’ve ever seen the scary hit movie Gremlins, but these things are alive and more real then we’ve known. The creature I’m talking about looks like a live furby, it’s name is Pygmy Tarsiers and it has been discovered that