Everyone knows the
Tarsier is the smallest living primate, has a tail longer than its body, can easily fit snugly in the human hand, and is 36 million years old.
But Did You Know? They are master leapers and expert hunters!
They have really big sharp needly teeth!
They grab birds in flight bigger than them and eat everything they catch whole, even like feathers and bones and things!
If an ape is the ancestor of a human, and a monkey is the ancestor of an ape, and a tarsier is the ancestor of a monkey, then the tarsier is your great-grandfather (presuming of course that you're human)!
Each of their eyes is bigger than their entire brain and larger than their stomach!
They can't move their eyes though, ha!, so they have to rotate their necks, which they can do nearly 360 degrees around!
The locals of Borneo thought this meant their heads could come off! Uh, Nope. Sorry!
Once again, an animal is named for an attribute of its foot! I would argue the tarsus bone in the foot isn't the tarsier's most distinguishing feature, but I'm apparently wrong!
They're a good example of something cute actually being something really vicious, and still cute!
Tarsiers drink regularly!
Some of them live in mangroves!
A tarsier may rub its face on branches to clean itself!
It will close its eyes when a predator comes near, then suddenly open them and bare its teeth to surprise and terrify the predator away!
All I can say is...
BRING IT ON!
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