Wednesday, November 19, 2008

PYGMY TARSIER


Have you heard about this people? I LOVE it when I hear this kind of news. Amongst the almost daily reports of another species going extinct, today there was this tidbit about the Pygmy Tarsier, one of the planet's smallest and rarest primates. They are MOUSE SIZED! How cute is that? They were spotted, trapped, tagged and released in the Lore Lindu National Park in central Sulawesi in Indonesia. They have long been assumed to be extinct as there has not been a sighting in eighty years. Here is a picture of one of the little guys.

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