Philippine Tarsier, smallest primate in the world!

The Philippine tarsier, (Tarsius syrichta), is very peculiar small animal with big eyes. In fact, it is one of the smallest known primates, no larger than an adult man's hand. Mostly active at night, it lives on insects. Folk traditions sometimes has it that tarsiers eat charcoal, but actually they retrieve the insects from (sometimes burned) wood. It can be found in the islands of Samar, Leyte, Bohol, and Mindanao in the Philippines.

I made this video clip in Bohol on 23 December 2009.

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• Bohol
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• monkeys

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@TheJemma23

pygmy mouse lemur

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so ugly

[TheJemma23]

Tarsiers aren't the smallest primates in the world - The gray mouse lemur is.