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/tˈɑːsɪɐ/
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NOUN
- nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates
How To Use tarsier In A Sentence
- Several scientists believed they were extinct until two Indonesian scientists trapping rats in the highlands of Sulawesi accidentally trapped and killed a pygmy tarsier in 2000. Archive 2008-11-01
- But there are other faces in the primate clan - a host of engaging oddities, peculiar and secretive creatures that most of us have never seen: pottos and tarsiers, lorises and galagos, angwantibos and more.
- The Philippines has the world's smallest monkey: Tarsier which can sit on my fingertips. Its Chocolate Mountains are mysterious natural scenes that puzzled scientists.
- Primates including forest-dwelling ancestors of today's lemurs and tarsiers flourished in the trees.
- Only one other primate, the tarsier, is known to include such a high proportion of animal prey in its diet.
- Besides gibbons, singing primates include the Madagascan lemurs called indris, the tarsiers of Sulawesi, and the tiff monkeys of South America.
- Primates including forest-dwelling ancestors of today's lemurs and tarsiers flourished in the trees.
- Only in recent decades have prosimians - a suborder of primates that includes lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers - begun to be studied systematically.
- The smallest kind of tarsier was believed to be extinct until it was found last month on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Pygmy tarsier, a monkey that defies categorization, not extinct afterall!
- This area is of vital importance, not only for the babirusa but also for the anoa (an endemic dwarf buffalo), the tiny, giant-eyed spectral tarsier and the locally endemic Heck's macaque.