tarsier

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"The tiny Furby-like pygmy tarsier, presumed to be extinct, was found during a recent expedition to Indonesia.

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  1. noun Any of several small nocturnal arboreal primates of the genus Tarsius, of the East Indies and the Philippines, having large round eyes, a long tail, and long fingers and toes tipped with soft disklike pads.

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  • THE tarsier a colleague brought from Bohol was inside a small cage, tiny and huddled like a wrinkled, naked old man deprived any sort of dignity.
  • A few days later, my colleague, who stubbornly refused to find means to return the tarsier to its natural habitat, sadly reported that it had died.
  • We talked about the tarsier, removed from his natural environments.
  • Fuentes points out that in Philippine setting, the degradation of biodiversity is often exclusively linked to the extinction of "champion species" like the monkey-eating eagle or the Philippine tarsier.
  • • The exception is the tarsier, which exhibits A large number of prosimian species are to be found on advanced features not the island of Madagascar. found in the other prosimians. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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  1. French, from tarse, tarsus (from its elongated ankles), from New Latin tarsus; see tarsus.

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  1. from French tarsier, from New Latin Tarsius: see Tarsius.
 

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/ˈtɑrsɪər/
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