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Tarsiers are nocturnal creatures being active and looking for food during the night preying mainly on insects.
They are tiny animals measuring about four to six inches in height. Their small size makes them difficult to discover. During the day, tarsiers sleep in dark hollows close to the ground. Their natural habitat is the tropical rainforest with dense vegetation and trees.
Tarsiers have a round head that can be rotated 180 degrees and with large membranous ears that appear to be almost constantly moving. They have uniquely large goggling eyes (disproportionate to their heads and body). They use their thin tail about twice their body length to balance themselves. They habitually cling vertically to trees and are capable of leaping from branch to branch. The thick and silky fur is colored gray to dark brown. Their hind limbs are elongated and have disklike pads on the fingertips that help them cling easily to trees.
Angry TarsierParadoxically, indigenous superstition coupled with relatively thick rainforest in this province have apparently preserved this endangered species. Indigenous tribes leave tarsiers in the wild because they fear that these animals could bring bad luck.
Local people sometimes pride themselves by calling the tarsier as the world's smallest monkey. However the tarsier is neither a monkey nor the smallest primate.
It is a primate and is part of the group of mammals that includes monkeys, lemurs, gorillas and humans. Scientists say the tarsier falls somewhere between the lemurs and monkeys on the evolutionary scale.
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