"Everyone's always talking about pygmy tarsiers," said lead researcher Sharon Gursky-Doyen, a professor at Texas A&M University.
"There have been dozens of expeditions looking for them—all unsuccessful. I needed to go and try to see for myself if they were really there or if they were really extinct," added Gursky-Doyen, whose research was funded in part by the National Geographic Society's Conservation Trust.
"Once relatively abundant among the mossy, forested mountain slopes of Lore Lindu National Park in central Sulawesi, the pygmy tarsier population may have shrunk when logging in the 1970s destroyed its habitat, Gursky-Doyen said.
The nocturnal creatures rely on darkness to avoid predation. However in fragmented forests, the canopy lets in more moonlight, exposing the small animal to birds and other predators as it leaps from tree to tree.
Gursky-Doyen said she hopes the find will inspire the Indonesian government to protect the species and its habitat.
"[The] government needs to figure out a compromise between people and animals living in Lore Lindu."
To: JoeProBono
2 posted on
11/17/2008 7:57:24 PM PST by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: JoeProBono
Didn’t that little guy sell Quizno’s subs for a while?
3 posted on
11/17/2008 7:57:57 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: JoeProBono
The 2-ounce (57-gram) carnivorous primate There's a movie here somewhere.
4 posted on
11/17/2008 7:59:17 PM PST by
hercuroc
To: JoeProBono
Looks like a rhesus monkey, a lemur, and a sugar baby got drunk one night, had too much fun and this is the result.
6 posted on
11/17/2008 7:59:50 PM PST by
rintense
(I don't wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul~ TobyMac (are you listening Obamabots?))
To: JoeProBono
Don’t touch them. You all know the story about Brer Rabbit and the tarsier-baby.
To: JoeProBono
8 posted on
11/17/2008 8:00:21 PM PST by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: JoeProBono
Looks like my domesticated chihuahua..Won’t even make a good taco!!!
9 posted on
11/17/2008 8:00:46 PM PST by
hope
(the socialist msm result is mind-numb O-bots)
To: JoeProBono
"Everyone's always talking about pygmy tarsiers,"I am SO out of the loop.
10 posted on
11/17/2008 8:03:21 PM PST by
TN4Liberty
(The first amendment doesn't end with "...as long as nobody is offended.")
To: JoeProBono
Cool pic. I wonder what species of primate does that freaky looking “hand” belong to that is holding that poor little tarsier baby?
11 posted on
11/17/2008 8:03:25 PM PST by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: JoeProBono
looks more like a wingless bat than a primate.
To: JoeProBono
Don’t get them near bright light,Don’t get them wet,and Never feed them after midnight. ;-)
15 posted on
11/17/2008 8:11:46 PM PST by
HP8753
(Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
To: JoeProBono
19 posted on
11/17/2008 8:19:42 PM PST by
randomhero97
("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
To: JoeProBono
How cheap will they work? And do they taste like chicken?
21 posted on
11/17/2008 8:24:57 PM PST by
weegee
(Global Warming Change? Fight Global Socialist CHANGE.)
To: JoeProBono
"Extinct Primate Found in Indonesia - PHOTOHelen Thomas pic in 5...4...3...2...
29 posted on
11/17/2008 8:51:13 PM PST by
uglybiker
(1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d 2 g3t l41d)
To: JoeProBono
Is that Barry O’s Stepdad? You did say Indonesia, right?
30 posted on
11/17/2008 8:56:59 PM PST by
BigEdLB
(Six months from now there will be 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: JoeProBono
32 posted on
11/17/2008 9:48:53 PM PST by
ikka
(Brother, you asked for it!)
To: JoeProBono
Pelosi? Boxer? Waters? Hillary? or a combination of all of them?
To: JoeProBono
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.)
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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