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Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« on: July 01, 2012, 10:26:49 PM »
By Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:35 am | Sunday, July 1st, 2012


Newly born tarsiers were found in a small patch of secondary forest on Mt. Matutum in South Cotabato giving conservationists hope that there are more of the endangered species in the area that is threatened by logging, farming and mining.

Conservation group Endangered Species International (ESI) said a B’laan found two male baby tarsiers in the Matutum forest in May.

One of the infant tarsiers was with its mother, while the other was alone in the forest, ESI President Pierre Fidenci said in an e-mail to the Inquirer in early June.

Largest outside Bohol

With the new discoveries, the number of tarsiers found on Mt. Matutum has reached 26, Fidenci said. He said there could be as many as 50 to 80 tarsiers in the area, making it the largest tarsier population in the country outside of Bohol, where the first tarsier shelter in the country has been established.

Tarsiers have been placed on the red list of threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, which says the tarsiers’ forest habitats are being swallowed by logging, mining, agriculture and other economic activities.

ESI said the conservation center would be managed with the B’laan tribe. The group is surveying the proposed sanctuary area, which is about 600 hectares. The sanctuary, which will have nature trails, is expected to be ready later this year.

Fidenci said the tarsiers were being taken care of by the B’laan tribe, which is building a low-impact tarsier sanctuary on Mt. Matutum with the help of ESI.

Reforestation

“The interesting fact is that our research shows the tarsier survived in patches of secondary forest left, and sometimes tiny patches of 10 meters by 20 meters, so cutting down those remaining important ‘islands’ of suitable habitats could lead to rapid extirpation of the Philippine tarsier in Mindanao,” Fidenci said.

ESI is reforesting the degraded parts of Mt. Matutum with indigenous trees as part of its work to preserve the tarsier population in Mindanao.

ESI, which is based in San Francisco, California, has been collecting seedlings of rare and endemic trees from the primary forests of Mt. Matutum for use in the reforestation that will restore biodiversity in the degraded areas.

“Our goal is to continue to harvest seedlings from Mt. Matutum to make our reforestation efforts a real success,” Fidenci said.

Regreening the mountain

Regreening the mountain with local trees is important to the conservation of the tarsier, Fidenci said.
Increasing commercial activities in the mineral-rich and fertile lands of Mt. Matutum could wipe out the tarsier population in the area, said.

“Our data show an urgent need to protect the Philippine tarsier before it is too late,” Fidenci said. “Our reforestation efforts show good progress, with 80-percent survival rate and with some trees [doubling] their height in two months.”

The slopes of Matutum have been deforested and planted to pineapples, coconuts and bananas over the years. The mountain has a forest reserve of 14,000 hectares, but according to data from Birdlife International, only 3,000 hectares comprise primary old-growth forest.

Training

ESI has been training the B’laans to identify and protect tarsiers. They are being taught to detect the presence of tarsiers through the smell of the animals’ feces from a distance. They are also learning to search for individual tarsiers hiding under dense vegetation.
“Our B’laan teams are now becoming experts on surveying for tarsiers, Fidenci said.


Fidenci, who first visited the Philippines in 2001, said B’laans are also being trained to become naturalists.

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2012, 12:22:14 AM »
By Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:35 am | Sunday, July 1st, 2012

Newly born tarsiers were found in a small patch of secondary forest on Mt. Matutum in South Cotabato giving conservationists hope that there are more of the endangered species in the area that is threatened by logging, farming and mining.

Conservation group Endangered Species International (ESI) said a B’laan found two male baby tarsiers in the Matutum forest in May.

One of the infant tarsiers was with its mother, while the other was alone in the forest, ESI President Pierre Fidenci said in an e-mail to the Inquirer in early June.

Largest outside Bohol

With the new discoveries, the number of tarsiers found on Mt. Matutum has reached 26, Fidenci said. He said there could be as many as 50 to 80 tarsiers in the area, making it the largest tarsier population in the country outside of Bohol, where the first tarsier shelter in the country has been established.

Tarsiers have been placed on the red list of threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, which says the tarsiers’ forest habitats are being swallowed by logging, mining, agriculture and other economic activities.

ESI said the conservation center would be managed with the B’laan tribe. The group is surveying the proposed sanctuary area, which is about 600 hectares. The sanctuary, which will have nature trails, is expected to be ready later this year.

Fidenci said the tarsiers were being taken care of by the B’laan tribe, which is building a low-impact tarsier sanctuary on Mt. Matutum with the help of ESI.

Reforestation

“The interesting fact is that our research shows the tarsier survived in patches of secondary forest left, and sometimes tiny patches of 10 meters by 20 meters, so cutting down those remaining important ‘islands’ of suitable habitats could lead to rapid extirpation of the Philippine tarsier in Mindanao,” Fidenci said.


Daghan baya pong tarsier sa Madagascar, and even Indonesia... but Boholanos don't want to hear any of it hehehe  :D



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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2012, 12:22:49 AM »
Kung himasa mog NG (National Geographic) then you know.

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2012, 01:57:24 AM »
reality check: the "mozart of poetry", 1996 nobel laureate wisÅ‚awa szymborska-wÅ‚odek (1923 – 2012) has a poem about the tarsier.  excerpt:

I am a tarsier—the father and grandfather of tarsiers
a tiny creature, nearly half of something,
yet nonetheless a whole no less than others,
so light that twigs spring up beneath my weight
and might have lifted me to heaven long ago
if I hadn’t had to fall
time and again
like a stone lifted from hearts
grown oh so sentimental:
I, a tarsier,
know well how essential it is to be a tarsier.


as a once-a-year traveler most of her life, it would be safe to assume that szymborska may have gone to madagascar, but not to bohol.  either that, or she must have read national geographic. ;D 

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2012, 03:54:08 AM »
20 Years Ago, there were a lot of tarsiers in Anda, Bohol. I don't know now. Cutting trees to make them into firewood was a popular livelihood in the town. Tarsier was a common animal anyone could spot in the mountains of Anda. Not anymore today.

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2012, 10:10:21 AM »
TOBLIROTOY POETRY OF 2012

Tarsier ang tawag nila nako
Taliwala sa bukid ug lasang nagpuyo
Usahay maa-an akog milo
Tungod kay ngitngit ako mo guo.

Dawinde ako nga unggoy
Sugsogon usahay'g moymoy
Maguwang lang gamay sa botoy
Yano lang ang akong pangandoy.  ;D



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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2012, 10:26:48 AM »
Hmm, morag medyo lahi rang nawong ang Philippine tarsier (genus Carlito--in honor of Carlito Pizarras) kon ikomparar sa ubang members sa tarsier family.

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2012, 10:30:58 AM »
All tarsiers used to be classified in the genus Tarsius, but the Philippine tarsier is now placed in the genus Carlito. The genus is named after Carlito Pizarras, who is associated with the Philippines Tarsier Foundation, in honor of his efforts to protect tarsiers and his successful breeding of the animals in captivity. He's often known by the name of Nong Lito and is sometimes called "The Tarsier Man" because of his conservation efforts. Conservation organizations and people committed to tarsier protection are badly needed in order to save the wild populations. -- http://aliciac.hubpages.com/

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2012, 10:33:25 AM »
New Tarsier Genus Named After ‘Tarsier Man’
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Because of his dedication to the conservation of the Philippine tarsiers, Carlito Pizarras, popularly known as Nong Lito, is now immortalized in the annals of scientific literature after a new Tarsier genus was named after him.

Groves and Shekelle, in a paper published in the International Journal of Primatology, said that molecular and morphological evidences warrant a revision of the tarsier taxonomy from one genus, Tarsius, to three genera, Tarsius, Cephalopachus, and Carlito.



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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2012, 10:35:47 AM »
The figure below (from the Groves and Shekelle paper) summarizes the most conspicuous features for the three genera:




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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2012, 10:36:13 AM »
According to the authors, the three genera are found in distinct biogeographic regions : “Tarsius is found on Sulawesi and surrounding islands; Cephalopachus is found on a restricted subset of Sundaland, principally southern parts of Sumatra and the island of Borneo; Carlito is found on islands of the southern Philippines that were a single Ice Age landmass, sometimes called Greater Mindanao.”

Etymologically, the new genus, Carlito, is from Carlito, “diminutive man of the countryside.” The authors said that this comes from “the German Karl or Carl (country man), and the diminutive suffix from Spanish, -ito.” They propose this name because it is “an apt description of tarsiers as small primates of the countryside, but more particularly in recognition of Carlito Pizarras, the “Tarsier Man” of the Philippines, featured in nature films such as The Littlest Alien, a man of the Visayan countryside who dedicated his life to the pursuit of knowledge about and the conservation of the Philippine Tarsiers.”

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2012, 10:38:40 AM »
The three biogeographic regions of the genera (figure from Groves and Shekelle paper):




Colin Groves and Myron Shekelle (2010). The Genera and Species of Tarsiidae, International Journal of Primatology


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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2012, 10:43:49 AM »
an eye-opener:

The indigenous knowledge Pizarras has learned about the Philippine Tarsier that he shares with the visitors at the Philippine Tarsier Research and Development Center are that it is useless and doubly cruel to keep the animal as a pet because it is capable of "committing suicide" in captivity. Just to get out, it will bang its head on the cage until it dies. Pizarras said that he has witnessed this many times. If you frequently hold it in your hands, it will be under such stress that it will grow stiff and eventually stop breathing. Thus, touching the "sensitive" tarsier is a no-no in the sanctuary. It is very inviting to do so, especially since even at daytime, the animal is not easily scared by approaching people and tends to rest on tree trunks and twigs at eye level. (wikipedia)

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2012, 10:47:12 AM »
The three biogeographic regions of the genera (figure from Groves and Shekelle paper):




Colin Groves and Myron Shekelle (2010). The Genera and Species of Tarsiidae, International Journal of Primatology

asa man ani ang madagascar?  gamay ug hanap jamo ang map, di ko kakita.

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2012, 10:49:46 AM »
TOBLIROTOY POETRY OF 2012

Tarsier ang tawag nila nako
Taliwala sa bukid ug lasang nagpuyo
Usahay maa-an akog milo
Tungod kay ngitngit ako mo guo.

Dawinde ako nga unggoy
Sugsogon usahay'g moymoy
Maguwang lang gamay sa botoy
Yano lang ang akong pangandoy.  ;D

hehehe, mahalon galing ning chocolate nga toblirotoy...

ako si top gun tarsier named toblirotoy
my damgo is to have antiyohos ug honsoy. ;D

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2012, 10:50:00 AM »
asa man ani ang madagascar?  gamay ug hanap jamo ang map, di ko kakita.

Bisag unsaon nimog siga, di ka kakita, Insika ka. Southeast Asia ra man ni. ;D

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2012, 10:53:06 AM »
Bisag unsaon nimog siga, di ka kakita, Insika ka. Southeast Asia ra man ni. ;D

aw, mag-post na man lang kag mapa kun asa ang tarsiers, apila na lang intawon ang location sa famous tarsiers of madagascar; unless mga bol-anon na sila nga immigrants didto... ;D

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2012, 10:54:55 AM »
aw, mag-post na man lang kag mapa kun asa ang tarsiers, apila na lang intawon ang location sa famous tarsiers of madagascar; unless mga bol-anon na sila nga immigrants didto... ;D

Actually, lemurs man to sila, dili tarsiers. Parehas ba nga ako tawo pero ikaw Insik...  ;D

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #18 on: July 02, 2012, 11:03:23 AM »
Actually, lemurs man to sila, dili tarsiers. Parehas ba nga ako tawo pero ikaw Insik...  ;D

now i know... thanks.  i presumed all along that madagascar has tarsiers, or i must have read wrongly somewhere in the recesses of my mind, in the fading memories of my yesteryears.  yes, okoy ka, ako insik. ;D

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2012, 11:05:06 AM »
Not a monkey?

This endemic species has long been mistakenly referred to as a monkey - "the smallest monkey in the world". The truth is that, though tarsiers are in a taxonomic suborder by themselves among primates, they are more closely related to lemurs, lorises and bushbabies which are prosimians, as opposed to monkeys and apes which are anthropoids. What is being recognized as the smallest primate in the world is the pygmy mouse lemur found only in Madagascar.

The tarsier along with the lemur, tree shrew and loris, in fact belongs to the more primitive suborder Prosimii or prosimian. Tarsiers are probably the most advanced group of prosimians in relation to the higher primates.

    Class: Mammalia
    Order: Primates
    Suborder : Prosimii/Haplorrhini
    Infraorder: Tarsiiformes
    Superfamily: Tarsioidea

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #20 on: July 02, 2012, 11:12:18 AM »
Not a monkey?

This endemic species has long been mistakenly referred to as a monkey - "the smallest monkey in the world".

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What is being recognized as the smallest primate in the world is the pygmy mouse lemur found only in Madagascar.

now i know the culprit of my confusion; the term "smallest monkey in the world" for which madagascar (with its pygmy mouse lemur) and bohol (with its tarsier) have been confusingly credited to own.

i will mark down for life that the "smallest monkey in the world" is the pygmy mouse lemur in madagascar while bohol has the tarsier, no other description is necessary (though it's not the only one that has it, we must admit that bohol's own tarsier has the popularity of rock stars).

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #21 on: July 02, 2012, 11:18:37 AM »
Where do we find the Philippine Tarsier?

The Philippine Tarsier is found in the southern Philippine islands of Bohol, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao.

It is variously known to the natives as "mamag", "mago", "magau", "maomag", "malmag" and "magatilok-iok".

Is there only one kind of Philippine Tarsier?

Three very similar species have been described from several islands of the southern Philippines. It is possible that these three species belong to one species which have been developed into three races in the various islands. These are:

    T. philippensis - Samar and Leyte
    T. fraterculus -- Bohol
    T. carbonarius -- Mindanao

The Philippine tarsier possesses various distinctive characteristics and habits that have made it an object of both scientific research and popular curiosity.

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #22 on: July 02, 2012, 11:19:15 AM »
Or, more correctly, since lemurs are not really monkeys, the Madagascar guy is "the smallest primate in the world"...  :)

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #23 on: July 02, 2012, 11:22:39 AM »
Are there other tarsiers around the world?

     Bornean tarsier (Tarsius bancanus) of Borneo and Sumatra
     Spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum),
     Lesser spectral tarsier (Tarsius pumilus)
     Dian's tarsier (Tarsius dianae) of Sulawesi, Indonesia
     Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta)

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #24 on: July 02, 2012, 11:24:01 AM »
Or, more correctly, since lemurs are not really monkeys, the Madagascar guy is "the smallest primate in the world"...  :)

i cannot believe nga gagmay jamo ang mga bol-anon nga nag-immigrate sa madagascar. ;D

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #25 on: July 02, 2012, 11:25:33 AM »
What is the status of the Philippine Tarsier?

The status of the Philippine tarsier is categorized as "lower risk, conservation dependent." This simply means that it is not yet categorized as vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered, but it could qualify within five years in one of those categories if present programs to protect the species are stopped.

One main reason for the critically declining population of the species is the destruction of their known forest habitats. Years of commercial logging, slash-and-burn agriculture and illegal logging activities have greatly reduced the forest covers of Bohol, Mindanao, Samar, and Leyte - areas in the country where tarsiers can be found. With the destruction of forests comes the inevitable loss of tarsier populations.

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #26 on: July 02, 2012, 11:26:39 AM »
How was the Philippine Tarsier discovered?

Tarsiers first became known to Western scientists through the description given to J. Petiver by the missionary J.G. camel of an animal said to have come from the Philippines (Hill, 1955). Petivel published Camel's description in 1705 and named the animal Cercopithecus luzonis minimus which was the basis for Linnaeus' (1758) Simia syrichta and eventually Tarsius syrichta. How old is the tarsier? Dated at around 45 million years, or early in the Eocene period, it is one of the oldest land species in continuous existence in the Philippines.

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #27 on: July 02, 2012, 01:05:32 PM »
Tarsier Foundation

Tarsier Facts


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Not a monkey?

This endemic species has long been mistakenly referred to as a monkey - "the smallest monkey in the world". The truth is that, though tarsiers are in a taxonomic suborder by themselves among primates, they are more closely related to lemurs, lorises and bushbabies which are prosimians, as opposed to monkeys and apes which are anthropoids. What is being recognized as the smallest primate in the world is the pygmy mouse lemur found only in Madagascar.

The tarsier along with the lemur, tree shrew and loris, in fact belongs to the more primitive suborder Prosimii or prosimian. Tarsiers are probably the most advanced group of prosimians in relation to the higher primates.

Class: Mammalia 
Order: Primates
Suborder : Prosimii/Haplorrhini
Infraorder: Tarsiiformes
Superfamily: Tarsioidea 

 

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #28 on: July 02, 2012, 01:07:15 PM »
Where do we find the Philippine Tarsier?

The Philippine Tarsier is found in the southern Philippine islands of Bohol, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao.

It is variously known to the natives as "mamag", "mago", "magau", "maomag", "malmag" and "magatilok-iok".



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« Reply #29 on: July 02, 2012, 01:07:50 PM »
Is there only one kind of Philippine Tarsier?

Three very similar species have been described from several islands of the southern Philippines. It is possible that these three species belong to one species which have been developed into three races in the various islands. These are:

T. philippensis - Samar and Leyte
T. fraterculus -- Bohol
T. carbonarius -- Mindanao The Philippine tarsier possesses various distinctive characteristics and habits that have made it an object of both scientific research and popular curiosity.


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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #30 on: July 02, 2012, 01:08:44 PM »
Are there other tarsiers around the world?

Bornean tarsier (Tarsius bancanus) of Borneo and Sumatra, Spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum),

lesser spectral tarsier (Tarsius pumilus),

Dian's tarsier (Tarsius dianae) of Sulawesi, Indonesia

Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta)


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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #31 on: July 02, 2012, 01:09:23 PM »
What is the status of the Philippine Tarsier?

The status of the Philippine tarsier is categorized as "lower risk, conservation dependent." This simply means that it is not yet categorized as vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered, but it could qualify within five years in one of those categories if present programs to protect the species are stopped.

One main reason for the critically declining population of the species is the destruction of their known forest habitats. Years of commercial logging, slash-and-burn agriculture and illegal logging activities have greatly reduced the forest covers of Bohol, Mindanao, Samar, and Leyte - areas in the country where tarsiers can be found. With the destruction of forests comes the inevitable loss of tarsier populations



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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #32 on: July 02, 2012, 01:10:00 PM »
How was the Philippine Tarsier discovered?

Tarsiers first became known to Western scientists through the description given to J. Petiver by the missionary J.G. camel of an animal said to have come from the Philippines (Hill, 1955). Petivel published Camel's description in 1705 and named the animal Cercopithecus luzonis minimus which was the basis for Linnaeus' (1758) Simia syrichta and eventually Tarsius syrichta. How old is the tarsier? Dated at around 45 million years, or early in the Eocene period, it is one of the oldest land species in continuous existence in the Philippines.


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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #33 on: July 02, 2012, 01:11:38 PM »
Oooops! Sorry, na post naman diay ni Ms. Isles kining akong gipang post. Repetition na ning akoa.... morag Grade 1 student. My apologies.  :-X

 

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #34 on: July 02, 2012, 02:08:12 PM »
maajo hinoon aron pasar tang tanan bahin ug tarsiers.  di man makuha dayon ug one reading ra, labi na nang mga scientific names...

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #35 on: July 02, 2012, 02:09:44 PM »
wa lang gyod hinoon maapil si carlito sa mga klaseg tarsiers ani nga website, bisag unsaon nakog bali-bali.  duda ko nga ang gahimo ani wa pa makaadto sa bohol. 

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #36 on: July 07, 2012, 10:27:51 AM »
Diri sa bukid sa Pinalpalan Malita Davao del sur adunay tarsier. Niadtong 1981 sa nagtudlo pa ko sa bukid, ang usa Grade 6 pupil  nakadala ug patay nga tarsier sa school. Wala sila kaila nga tarsier diay kadto. Iyang gipanghadlok sa mga bata.

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Re: Surprise: Tarsiers found outside Bohol
« Reply #37 on: July 07, 2012, 10:37:12 AM »
Hmm, nikuyog sa immigrants...

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« Reply #38 on: July 07, 2012, 10:40:19 AM »
Hmm, nikuyog sa immigrants...

mamugos man bisag kahibawo nga illegal.. ;D

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« Reply #39 on: July 07, 2012, 10:41:43 AM »
mamugos man bisag kahibawo nga illegal.. ;D

Nagsalig kay illegal man pud ang tawo nga gikuyogan... ;D

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