Tarsiers

Classification and Habitation Tarsiers are small species of arboreal primates that usually inhabit well-vegetated forests. They are mostly found on islands in southeast Asia exclusively in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the southern Philippines. Tarsiers can be identified into three groups that are based upon their geographic location: the Western Tarsier, Eastern Tarsier, and the Philippine Tarsier. Western Tarsiers are generally found in lowland forests or low mountain forest on the islands of Borneo

none more so than the tarsier. This small, lemur like primate is virtually defenceless against abnormal stressors in their environment. Because of their heightened senses, unnatural stimulation—such as a camera flash—distresses the animal so intensely it crushes its own skull. The likelihood of this occurring increases exponentially the closer tarsiers are to humans. Many people do not understand how fragile the “wide-eyed” primate is, even slight exposure can make the tarsier

and the Middle Miocene in northern Thailand, allow us to compare ancient characters with many modern extant tarsiers. Tarsiers are subject to high levels of predation as they inhabit a specific biotope and are subject to avian predators as well as ground dwelling species (Řeháková-Petru, Peške, and Daněk 2012). Predation avoidance is important to a small bodied primate, for example a tarsier or galago (Gursky 2003). The hypothesis of predator avoidance when applied to the many unique characters seen

that tarsiers are involved in infanticide to. There are many explanations that have been discussed to explain this behavior. One of them is that some organisms recurred to kill infants for nutritive purposes. Another factor is that some animals will the new born just to eliminate the completion for food u other resources. Scientist also explains that male tarsiers will engage in infanticide to gain reproductive advantages killing babies that are not related to them. Doing this, male tarsiers increase

Wislawa Szymborska, a Polish Poet known for her protest poetry on social injustices, uses the image of the tarsier to convey her key idea about the importance of having a voice no matter how insignificant. The tarsier, is a nocturnal animal, around the size of a human hand of the East Indies and Philippine regions, with large, goggle eyes. The passage depicts the proudness of the tiny tarsier of his ancestry and buoyant about his life. This is then juxtaposed with Szymborska displaying the insignificance

Wislawa Szymborska stated “at the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind” (Anon., 2016). In a View with a Grain of Sand and Tarsier, Szymborska employs caesuras, irony and similes, to reveal the significance of the insignificance and its reliance upon human consciousness, for without the distinction between species, there would exist no superiority or significance of any being. Szymborska

era (Larsen). Having many attributes that pertain to the early primates they help give an insight to the evolution of dentition within early primates (Doyle). This helps understand the fore coming other grades of primates dentition; for example, tarsiers, monkeys, apes and hominids. Present Lemuroids are present in the island of Madagascar, off the shores of the African continent (Doyle). Their dentition pattern has what is known as a toothcomb (Larsen). They posses a pattern of two front incisors

Introduction There are many similarities and differences in primate species.The ones I chose to focus on today was the Philippine tarsier, Mandrill and the gibbon. What made me choose these non- human primates so interesting was the uniqueness and appearance of each primate. I plan to explain the similarities of their teeth structure and purposes and the similarities of their diet and feeding and also the differences of their behaviors. Mandrills are extremely colorful, perhaps more so than

For many animals, the ability to move is essential for survival. Animals move for a variety of reasons such as: to find food, a mate, a habitat to live in, or to escape predators. It is important for animals to develop new abilities and traits to accomplish these necessities of living. Natural selection has shaped the locomotion methods and mechanisms used by moving organisms for millions of years. Generally, non-human primates are studied to garner an understanding of evolution caused by natural

Introduction The evolution of man has always been a controversial topic. However, no matter what your beliefs are the fact is that man evolved from primates. There is very credible fossil evidence to back this up. Fossils allow us to dig deeper into our past and give us an understanding of what life was like for our ancestors. Particularly, I believe that fossils of our ancestors show that we had to develop bipedalism because of natural selection and environmental factors. Grade I: The Lemuroids