#Tarsiidae

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A Western tarsier (Cephalopachus bancanus) clings to a branch in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

by Geoff Gallice

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Horsfield's Tarsier

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Melvin Guererro

Bohol, Philippines

Tarsiers (/ˈtɑːrsiərz/ TAR-see-ərz) are haplorhine primates of the family Tarsiidae, which is, itself, the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. Although the group was, prehistorically, more globally widespread, all of the species living today are restricted to Maritime Southeast Asia, predominantly being found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines

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Mama used to make these and they were delicious. I missed moron (yes, that’s the name of that kakanin) and the other one that’s served in a coconut shell, and no I’m talking about the kalamay from Bohol. I forgot what it’s called but it was so yummy too

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Gursky's spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrumgurskyae)

Photo by Chien Lee

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For Indonesia’s newest tarsier, a debut a quarter century in the making

In 1993, scientists Alexandra Nietsch and Carsten Niemitz reported finding tarsiers, a type of small primate, on an island chain off eastern Indonesia’s larger Sulawesi Island.

Sulawesi’s biodiversity was little known then, and the notion that the tarsier from the Togean Islands might be a new species spurred a series of studies that looked at everything from the tarsier’s vocalizations to its DNA sequence.

Finally, in a study published this year in the annual journal Primate Conservation, that initial discovery by Nietsch and Niemitz a quarter of a century ago has been officially confirmed as a new species: Niemitz’s tarsier (Tarsius niemitzi), named in honor of the man “universally regarded as the father of tarsier field biology,” the study says.

“The biodiversity of Sulawesi is much like the biodiversity of the Galapagos Islands, made famous by Darwin’s work,” Myron Shekelle, a professor of anthropology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, and the lead author of the paper describing the new species, told Mongabay in an email.

“Numerous related species were each individually adapted to the specifics of a given island,” he added. “Why would any of us choose to walk away, while species remain undescribed and questions remain unanswered?”

Shekelle was also the lead author of a 2017 report describing two new tarsier species from the northern peninsula of Sulawesi.

While newly described to science, T. niemitzi has long been known to locals by the names bunsing, tangkasi and podi. Its weight and tail length fall within the range of a number of other tarsier species, but the tarsier from the Togean Islands lacks a reduced tail tuft, which is atypical for tarsiers endemic to small islands, according to the study.

Vocalization analysis based on recordings show that its duet is structurally simple, possibly the simplest of all known tarsier duets, the paper adds.

“Togean tarsiers are unique among known tarsier acoustic forms in that they respond in playback experiments to all other tarsier duet calls by duetting themselves,” the authors write.

They also looked into the conservation status of the Niemitz’s tarsier and suggested it be classified as endangered, largely due to its isolation on the Togean Islands, cut off from the Sulawesi main island by water that goes down to depths greater than 120 meters (400 feet).

“The broader implication is that the Togean Islands possess a largely endemic biota of taxa that do not disperse easily across water barriers,” the paper says.

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#tarsier #tarsiidae #phillipines #itsmorefuninthephilippines #bohol #timetravel As small as a hand! #follow 4 more #fun @dennis4now.photography (bij Bohol, Philippines) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbXqO6WAlzy/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Various strepsirrhines from the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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A Western tarsier (Cephalopachus bancanus) in Sabah, Borneo

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Just in case you weren’t already aware

the following list shows where the various monkey families (bolded) are placed in the classification of living (extant) primates 

 ORDER PRIMATES

Suborder Strepsirrhini: lemurs, lorises, and galagos

Suborder Haplorhini: tarsiers, monkeys, and apes

Infraorder Tarsiiformes

Infraorder Simiiformes: simians

Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers

Parvorder Platyrrhini: New World monkeys

Parvorder Catarrhini

Family Callitrichidae: marmosets and tamarins (42 species)

Family Cebidae: capuchins and squirrel monkeys (14 species)

Family Aotidae: night monkeys (11 species)

Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis, and uakaris (41 species)

Family Atelidae: howler, spider, and woolly monkeys (24 species)

Superfamily Cercopithecoidea

Superfamily Hominoidea: apes

Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys (135 species)

Family Hylobatidae: gibbons ("lesser apes") (17 species)

Family Hominidae: great apes (including humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) (8 species)

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Portrait of a spectral tarsier on a fig tree in Tangkoko national park, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, that features in the Natural History Museum’s major new exhibition Life in the DarkPhotograph: Quentin Martinez/Trustee's of the Natural History Museum

Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorhini Family: Tarsiidae Genus: Tarsius Species: T. spectrum

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A Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta) a species of tarsier endemic to the Philippines.

Tarsiers belongs to the family Tarsiidae whose name is derived from its elongated "tarsus" or ankle bone. The genus Carlito is named after conservationist Carlito Pizarras.

Their eyes are disproportionately large, having the largest eye-to-body weight ratio of all mammals. Their eyes are fixed in its skull and cannot move in their sockets. Instead, a special adaptation in the neck allows its round head to be rotated 180. They use their huge eyes to hunt insects during the night.

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Primates

Suborder: Haplorhini

Infraorder: Tarsiiformes

Family: Tarsiidae

Genus: Carlito

Groves & Shekelle, 2010

Species: Carlito syrichta

Photographer: Darwin Bibar

Camera: Huawei Nova 9

Location: Leyte, Philippines

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Tarsier

Family: Tarsiida

It’s hard not to smile when looking at a Tarsier – their extremely large eyes, which are greater in size than their actual brain, are so attractive that you instinctively smile at their cuteness-come-strangeness.

Living in South East Asia, considering that they have a cute and cuddly appearance, the way that they kill their prey (which is always another animal – Tarsier’s are the only completely carnivorous mammal in the world) does not follow the same guideliness – they effectively jump and pounce on any smaller animals than them.

[themonkeyprincess]

The Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta), known locally as mawumag in Cebuano and other Visayan languages, magô in Winaray and mamag in Tagalog, is a species of tarsier endemic to the Philippines. It is found in the southeastern part of the archipelago, particularly on the islands of Bohol, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. It is a member of the approximately 45-million-year-old family Tarsiidae, whose name is derived from its elongated "tarsus" or ankle bone. Formerly a member of the genus Tarsius, it is now listed as the only member of the genus Carlito, a new genus named after the conservationist Carlito Pizarras. • • • • • #tarsier #tarsiersanctuary #bohol #boholphilippines #philippines #travelinstagram #traveler #familybonding #travelphotography #travelgram #familyphotography #familygoals #family (at Copenhagen) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsXIY9sn0ax/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hyu53x8f6e3e