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"Extinct Primate Found in Indonesia - PHOTO
nationalgeographic ^

Posted on 11/17/2008 7:55:41 PM PST by JoeProBono

It may look like a gremlin, but this tiny animal is actually a pygmy tarsier, recently rediscovered in the forests of Indonesia.

The 2-ounce (57-gram) carnivorous primate had not been seen alive since the 1920s.

That was until researchers on a summer expedition captured, tagged, and released three members of the species (including this individual, above).


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: extinct; primate; tarsier
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

41 posted on 11/17/2008 10:51:47 PM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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42 posted on 11/17/2008 10:55:51 PM PST by ItsForTheChildren
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Somebody could build a damn good horror movie around that face!
43 posted on 11/17/2008 11:06:21 PM PST by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: JoeProBono

You dumb ass scientists, do you realize that they were doing just fine (even though you thought they were gone) until YOU nutbags found them again? Now they need protection from you because you found them.

Idiots.


44 posted on 11/17/2008 11:15:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: JoeProBono

How many other species are like this? Not really extinct but we think so. Probably a lot more than we realize.


45 posted on 11/17/2008 11:16:09 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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