2023年12月17日 · Digital art representation of a pageant participant from the Philippines, wearing a unique and creative costume inspired by the Tarsier, a native animal, on the international pageant stage.

This is the pygmy tarsier (Tarsius pumilus)! Tarsiers are nocturnal animals (active at night) with crepuscular tendencies; that is, they are most active just...

It exhibits striking morphological peculiarities—most prominently its extremely reduced body size, which led to the common name of ‘pygmy tarsier’. However, our results indicate that T. pumilus is not an aberrant form of a lowland tarsier, but in fact, the most basal of all Sulawesi tarsiers.

2019年7月20日 · Young Filipino fashion designer Joshua Asuncion has created gowns inspired by some of the Philipines’ endangered species such as Tarsier, Dugong, and Philippine Eagle – much to the delight of netizens who saw the compilation on social media.

The pygmy tarsier (Tarsius pumilus), also known as the mountain tarsier or the lesser spectral tarsier, is a nocturnal primate found in central Sulawesi, Indonesia, in an area with lower vegetative species diversity than the lowland tropical forests. The pygmy tarsier was believed to have become extinct in the early 20th century.

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The phylogenetic position of T. pumilus bears directly on one more assumption about its nature: that it is a pygmy tarsier. If it turns out that T. pumilus is, indeed, the sister-species of other extant tarsiers, then being small is quite likely the primitive state (see Beard 2001).

2008年11月18日 · Three specimens of the pygmy tarsier, a nocturnal creature about the size of a small mouse, were trapped and tracked this summer on Mount Rorekatimbo in Lore Lindu National Park in Central ...

2008年12月4日 · Sometimes called the world's smallest monkey, the pygmy tarsier is neither a monkey nor even the smallest primate. The tiny dwarf lemur of Madagascar gets that honor. And, primatologists say the tarsier falls somewhere between the prosimians (lemurs, busbabies) and monkeys on the evolutionary scale.