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	Philippine Tarsier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta; also called mal in T'boli) is a tarsier that was, for a very long time, believed to exist only in the provinces of Samar, Leyte, and Bohol, Philippines.
		Tarsiers are nocturnal creatures, being active and looking for food during the night, and preying mainly on insects.
		However the tarsier is neither a monkey nor the smallest primate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philippine_Tarsier (478 words)

	A note on Wisława Szymborska’s “The Tarsier": SR, April 2005
		The tarsier, or tarsus, is a squirrellike nocturnal animal of the East Indies and the Philippines, with large, goggle eyes.
		The relationship between the tarsier and the master is perhaps captured by the Romanian proverb expressing the relationship of the weak to the strong: “Kiss the hand you cannot bite.” The weak may hate their oppressors, yet treat them with obsequious gentility because of their relative weakness in the face of such powerful domination.
		Finally, the tarsier is ineffably self-possessed, sure of its purpose in the world: “I, a tarsier, know well how essential it is to be a tarsier.” I would speculate that the tarsier’s essential character is to be a symbol to the world revealing the infinite significance of the most insignificant of creatures.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/405/254ross.html (749 words)

	Philippine Tarsier
		Tarsiers are named for their special elongated tarsal bones, which form their ankles and enable them to leap 3 meters (almost 10 feet) from tree to tree.
		One tarsier species is found in the Philippines.Four species are currently recognized in Indonesia and another (Tarsius sangirensis) has been proposed, based on recently gathered field data on vocalizations, measurements, and genetics.
		In tarsiers, the internal structures of the nose and ears and the blood supply to the brain and to a developing fetus are more like those of monkeys than of lorises.
	hayop.0catch.com /tarsier.htm (427 words)

	tarsier: a screen saver toggle for windows @ trainedmonkey
		tarsier is a small application that allows you to quickly enable (and disable) your screen saver, as well as activate it.
		There are several species of tarsier that live in such locations as the phillipines and indonesia.
		tarsier is free to download, use, and distribute.
	trainedmonkey.com /tarsier (255 words)

	Lessons.ph Web Magozine: The Tantalizing Tarsier
		As a nocturnal hunter, the tarsier is well-equipped for stalking insects, lizards, and small amphibians at night.
		Tarsiers have also been confirmed in the forested areas of Samar, Leyte, and in Dinagat and Siargao Islands as well as in Mindanao.
		While the hunting and trade of tarsiers are now prohibited by law, tourists can still catch a glimpse of these fascinating creatures in captive breeding programs operated by private groups and local governments and sanctioned by the DENR.
	www.lessonsplus.com /webmag/ish003/personality2.shtml (570 words)

	Tarsier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tarsiers are the members of the Tarsius genus of prosimian primates, monotypic in the Tarsiidae family and Tarsiiformes infraorder.
		Once found in Asia, Europe and North America, tarsiers are now only found on several Southeast Asian islands including the Philippines, Sulawesi, Borneo, and Sumatra.
		When caged, some tarsiers have been known to injure and even kill themselves because of the stress [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarsier (247 words)

	Bundok Philippines - The Tarsier
		Tarsiers are certainly small -- an adult can easily fit in the palm of a person's hand but the smallest primate is the pygmy mouse lemur.
		Tarsiers are probably more susceptible to the stress of captivity compared to their larger cousins, the monkeys, and tarsiers aren't very long-lived.
		At one of the houses of the boatmen along the river, eight tarsiers were kept in a hutch in the courtyard.
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/3712/tarsier.html (805 words)

	QinetiQ's Tarsier runway detection system paves way for safer runways with first sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Known as Tarsier, the system can detect small items of potentially dangerous debris on airports runways and is expected to be installed at YVR early next year.
		It is expected that Tarsier will also help reduce the estimated $4 billion cost* of debris damage and delays faced by the global airline industry each year.
		Tarsier has been developed with a very clear and simple purpose in mind - to improve airport safety and ultimately to save lives.
	www.qinetiq.com /home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2005/3rd_quarter/firsy_sale_of_runway.html (876 words)

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		Tarsiers were also captured in mist nets for bats at Poring in Kinabalu Park and Tawau Hills National Park both in Sabah and at Sungai Rayu area of the Kubah park (Table 1).
		A tarsier (B0323) was captured in a mist net and within the same shelf with a Macroglossus minimus at Tawau Hills National Park; however, both animals were far apart.
		All tarsiers caught were from mist nets deployed across or diagonally across forest trails that might be on the ranging routes of the species.
	greenfield.fortunecity.com /wilderness/258/tarsier.htm (1999 words)

	Eastern Tarsier
		Once represented by different forms in Europe and North America, tarsiers are found today only in southeastern Asia, usually in the coastal forests and near creeks and rivers.
		Tarsiers feed on insects and lizards and also small fish and crabs.
		When seizing its prey, the tarsier closes its eyes tightly to prevent injury from the victim’s struggles.
	www.nature.ca /notebooks/english/estars.htm (148 words)

	Endangered Species » Mammals » Philippine Tarsier
		At night the tarsier is often found in the edges of clearings looking for food.
		Tarsier occur in Samar, Leyte, Bohol and Mindanao.
		The Philippine tarsier stays in the lowlands and medium elevations, in the plains and in rolling or hilly country.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~fasawwu/resources/endangered/philippine-tarsier.htm (650 words)

	ADW: Tarsius syrichta: Information
		Tarsiers are sometimes kept as pets, although their survival in captivity is erratic due to their need for live insects upon which to feed.
		Tarsiers have suffered greatly from hunters and trappers who shake the animals out of their trees or chop down the branches of the trees in which they live.
		Tarsiers were named because of the two greatly elongated bones on their feet.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /accounts/tarsius/t._syrichta.html (1201 words)

	Tarsier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Tarsier is an unusual mammal that lives in southeast Asia, in rainforests and bamboo forests in the Philippines and Indonesia.
		Tarsiers are primates, mammals closely related to lemurs, monkeys, and apes.
		Tarsiers range from 3 to 6 inches (8 to 15 cm) long but their long tail adds another 5 to 11 inches (13 to 28 cm) of length.
	www.bryder.net /tarsier/tarsier.html (182 words)

	Tarsier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The eyes of a tarsier are much too large for their sockets, so they have to rotate their head to see.
		The vertebrae in a tarsier's neck allows the tarsier to twist its head in directions that would be impossible for humans to accomplish.
		When a tarsier female tarsier is ready to breed, her skin swells to an abnormal size.
	www.msad54.k12.me.us /MSAD54Pages/Norridgewock/ChurchWebsite/AnimalAdaptations/tarsier.htm (550 words)

	Philippine Tarsier
		The Philippine tarsier, however, is known to be a solitary animal, which values its freedom and privacy.
		It has been reported that some tarsiers were so traumatized by captivity that they committed suicide by beating their heads against the cages.
		Aside from hunters, the dwindling of Philippine forests poses a grave threat to the survival of the Philippine tarsier.
	www.txtmania.com /articles/tarsier.php (375 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Tarsier
		Tarsier, common name for any of four species of primates found in Indonesia, Borneo, and the Philippine Islands that are slightly smaller than...
		Tarsiers are the only living representatives of a primitive group of primates that ultimately led to monkeys, apes, and humans.
		The primate order includes a handful of species that live entirely on meat (carnivores) and also a few that are strict vegetarians (herbivores), but...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Tarsier.html (104 words)

	Tarsier born in captivity in Sarangani
		The Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) was declared on June 23, 1997 as a "specifically protected faunal species of the Philippines" under then President Fidel Ramos' Proclamation 1030.
		The birth of the baby Tarsier came exactly a week after Constantino placed the two nocturnal creatures (head and body length around 4 to 5 inches, their tails about twice longer) inside a 1.5 foot by 2.5 foot wood and bamboo cage covered by fl nylon net.
		It is not certain as yet if the Tarsiers found in Sarangani are of the same species as Bohol's Tarsius syrichta, a subspecies of it, or of another species found in Sulawesi, Indonesia.
	sarangani.freewebspace.com /news/tarsier/m06tarsier.html (575 words)

	Tarsier
		Tarsiers use their toenails as well as saliva to groom themselves, and clean their face by rubbing it against branches.
		Tarsiers come out at night to hunt for their favourite meal, which consists of just about any kind of insect, including ants, grasshoppers, moths, beetles, cockroaches and scorpions, but they will also eat lizards, bats, snakes and birds.
		Tarsiers are gentle and affectionate, both with their partners and offspring.
	www.wildinfo.com /facts/Tarsier.asp?page=/facts/Tarsier.asp (741 words)

	Family Tarsiidae: Tarsier
		Tarsiers were previously classified as strepsirhines, but are now considered members of the haplorhines; they have traits that are similar to the prosimians as well as those similar to the monkeys and apes.
		Tarsiers are capable of jumping up to seven feet, and use a specialized form of locomotion called vertical clinging and leaping (VCL).
		Tarsiers are found in the dense rainforests on the southeast Asian islands of the Philippines, Sulawesi, Borneo, and Sumatra.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/Canopy/3220/IOtarsiiformes.html (413 words)

	Upclose with the Philippine tarsiers
		Tarsiers, like Datu Charles, are known to be solitary animals that are not comfortable with the presence of human beings or any other animals within their territories.
		At present, only a few Philippine tarsier can still be found in Bohol, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao and is variously known to the natives as mamag, mago, magau, maomag, malmag and magatilok-iok.
		Pizarras, whose fascination to the tarsiers started when he was still 12, also stressed that the government's inaction against several families in Loboc town who hold tarsiers in cages as pets and make them perform like apes, have led to the death of several tarsiers.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/philippine_travel_culture/102511 (376 words)

	Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections: Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta)
		Tarsiers differ from other lemurs in that the face is furred with short hairs ending at a narrow strip of naked skin around the nostrils.
		The muzzle is moist with a central prolongation dividing the upper lip.
		There is no evidence that T. syrichta builds any sort of nests and sleeps during the day in dense vegetation on a vertical branch, or sometimes in a hollow tree.
	brainmuseum.org /Specimens/primates/tarsier (398 words)

	Tarsier-like locomotor specializations in the Oligocene primate Afrotarsius -- Rasmussen et al. 95 (25): 14848 -- ...
		The tibiofibula is attributed to Afrotarsius on the
		resembles that of tarsiers in that the condyles are roughly coequal
		tarsiers, near the attachment for the patellar ligament, is considered
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/95/25/14848 (2103 words)

	Lady WIld Lifes Tarsier Page
		A tarsier leaps quickly from tree to tree on its long hind legs, which are about twice the length of its head and body.
		A tarsier marks the trees in its territory with urine and by rubbing its scent glands against the bark.
		Tarsiers have not been seen eating fruit in the wild, but a Philippine tarsier ate bananas when fed b a researcher.
	ladywildlife.com /animal/tarsier.html (832 words)

	Forest Friends - Tarsier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Tarsier is a very small mammal, a primate, that is only about the size of a human hand.
		Tarsiers are named for their special elongated tarsal bones.
		Tarsiers are about 4.5 to 5 inches long, not including the tail, which is another 9 inches and nearly hairless.
	www.jeannieshouse.com /forest_friends/tarsier/tarsier.html (223 words)

	Spectral Tarsier (Tarsius spectrum)
		The spectral tarsier has a dental formula of 2:1:3:3 on the upper jaw and 1:1:3:3 on the lower jaw (Nowak, 1999).
		The spectral tarsier is found in the country of Indonesia, on the island of Sulawesi and the nearby islands of Sangihe, Peleng, and Salayer (Nowak, 1999).
		The basic group of the spectral tarsier is made up of the mated pair and their offspring.
	members.tripod.com /uakari/tarsius_spectrum.html (1670 words)

	The Philippine Tarsier
		The tarsier was first introduced to Western biologists through the description given to J. Petiver by the missionary J.G. Camel of an animal said to have come from the Philippines (Hill, 1955).
		Among the locals, the tarsier is known as "mamag", "mago", "magau", "maomag", "malmag" and "magatilok-iok".
		Currently, the Philippine tarsier is categorized as a "lower risk, conservation dependent" species, which means that, although it is not yet categorized as vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered, it could qualify for one of those categories within five years if the present protection programs are stopped.
	www.bohol.ph /article.php?id=15 (2346 words)

	tarsier on Encyclopedia.com
		TARSIER [tarsier], small, nocturnal, forest-dwelling prosimian primate, genus Tarsius.
		A tarsier munches on a cricket in a widlife sanctuary in the central Philippine island of Bohol 20 January 2006.
		The tarsier is the world's smallest primate and are a protected species in the Philippines.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/t1/tarsier.asp (399 words)

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