Scientists first spotted a previously unknown type of tarsier on the Togean Islands off Sulawesi, Indonesia, in 1993, and it’s taken 25 years of further studies to describe the diminutive primate ...

Today I am striding boldly into the North Sulawesi jungle to track another rare creature found only in Indonesia, an elusive freak of nature known as the tarsier. But this time I have checked my fear ...

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.

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A spectral tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) feeding on a grasshopper in Tangkoko National Park, Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tarsiers have five chitinase genes to digest the high amount of chitin in their ...

Two new species of tarsiers — small primates who may have inspired the character Yoda from Star Wars — have been discovered in Indonesia, scientists announced in a new study published Thursday.

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Intensified illegal logging and expansions of palm oil plantations and farms have destroyed rain forests on Indonesia's fourth-largest island, Sulawesi, threatening the ...

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 ...

On a misty mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have observed one of the planet's smallest and rarest primates - 80 years after it was thought to have become extinct. The pygmy ...

Scientists recorded tarsiers' duets on an Indonesian island. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tiny, monkeylike creatures called ...

TEMPO.CO, Belitung - The small creatures, measuring just 10-15 centimeters in height, perched on tree branches in the depths of Batu Mentas forest at the foot of Mount Tajam in Badau district, ...