Growing popularity and association with a top tourist destination in the country drive people to take them away from their natural habitat and make them their pets, the Philippine Tarsier Foundation ...

This unsuspecting grasshopper didn't stand a chance when a hungry tarsier decided to swing by for dinner. The furry primate used its strong hind legs to propel itself two metres through the air and ...

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Rajan Datar travels to the Philippine island of Bohol to meet the highly reclusive animal The tarsier is the oldest surviving primate on Earth – but it isn’t easy to find. Travel to the Philippine ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The pygmy tarsier, one of the world’s most endangered primates, was thought extinct ...

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Happy Star Wars Day, everyone! What better way to celebrate than by ooh-ing and aww-ing over two newly-discovered species of tarsier that look exactly like Yoda if he were extremely high? A new study ...

“Shhhh…no camera…no light…no action!” Carlito Pizarras, the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary field supervisor, whispered, putting a finger on his mouth. Our ...

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Mother and baby Tarsier in Tangkoko. Photo by Rhett Butler. The spectral tarsier of Sulawesi is one of the world’s smallest primates, weighing roughly the equivalent ten U.S. quarters when full-grown.