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Tarsier

Scientific Name: Tarsiidae, Genus Type: Tarsius

Description:

The tarsier is only seen in one color, brown. The tarsier are relatively tiny, they're as big as my fore finger and their tail is as long as half of my arm. They can reach 3.6 to 6.4 inches in length, and between 2.8 and 5.8 ounces in weight. Tarsiers have a body covered in fur that can be ochre, brown, gold or grey in color. They have a relationship with trees. It's commensalism because it just clings to the branch and the tree doesn't seem to care. Tarsiers are able to keenly sense the presence of a potential predator and often use their strong hind legs to leap to a safer branch. They have sexual reproduction. Tarsiers tend to breed all year round with females giving birth to a single baby after a gestation period that lasts for about six months. http://a-z-animals.com/animals/tarsier/

Habitat:

Tarsiers are restricted to a number of islands in south-east Asia. Philippine Tarsiers tend to prefer lowland forests and are distributed across a number of islands in the southern Philippines including Bohol, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. Its diet consists of insects , spiders, small crustaceans, and small vertebrates such as small lizards and birds. Due to the small size of the Tarsier, they are preyed upon by numerous animal species in the surrounding forest including cats, birds of prey, large snakes and small carnivores depending on the region in which they live. birds.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_tarsier

Notes:

When I was still eight years old, me and my family went on a trip to Bohol, a city in the Philippines. We went into this kind of tarsier "farm". We also got to see them eat a cockroach.

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Spotted on Apr 13, 2009
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