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Gremlins Thought Extinct, Found After 85 Years
livescience.com ^
| November 18, 2008
| Jeanna Bryner
Posted on 11/18/2008 6:39:38 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Mouse-sized primates called pygmy tarsiers, not seen alive in 85 years, have come out of hiding from a mountaintop in a cloud forest in Indonesia.
Weighing just 2 ounces (57 grams), they resemble mini gremlin creatures, as they have big eyes and are covered in dense coats of fur to keep warm in a damp, chilly habitat. Unlike most other primates that sport fingernails, pygmy tarsiers have claws, which scientists say might be an adaptation to grasping onto moss-covered trees.
The recent sighting has conservation implications. And researchers said they hope that with new information about where the species lives, the Indonesian government will protect them from the encroaching development occurring in the animals' home range.
Hide-n-seek
The last sighting of this primate alive was in 1921 when live specimens were collected and processed for a museum collection.
Decades went by without another sighting. And scientists thought the pygmy tarsier (Tarsius pumilus) had possibly gone extinct. Then, in 2000, two Indonesian scientists who were trapping rats on Mt. Rore Katimbo in Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, reported they had accidentally trapped and killed a pygmy tarsier.
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To: Free ThinkerNY
To: Free ThinkerNY
Tribbles are trouble.
Oh yeah, and don’t let Sulu near the little guys.
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:42:18 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: Jet Jaguar
never, ever, ever feed them after midnight:
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:43:44 PM PST
by
paltz
To: Free ThinkerNY
It's The Lost Tribe Of Robert B. Reich!!!!!!
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:44:07 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Let's be proactive and start the impeachment NOW.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Remember not to feed it after midnight!
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:44:20 PM PST
by
VanDeKoik
To: Free ThinkerNY
Gremlins Hell!!!
That’s Gollum in a fur coat!!!!
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:45:04 PM PST
by
RedMonqey
(Embracing my "Inner Redneck")
To: Free ThinkerNY
The last sighting of this primate alive was in 1921 when live specimens were collected and processed for a
museum collection tasty snack.
Fixed. ;)
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:45:16 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama is the Messiah he is restoring the earth
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:50:01 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi mom Honkeys for Mc Cain Palin)
To: Free ThinkerNY
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:53:24 PM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter. Before the late bell. When I close the door.)
To: y'all
I have thought, for a long time, that a hand that
size on the tip of each of my fingers would be
useful. Picking my nose, polishing pearls, scratching...
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:54:24 PM PST
by
Cyber Ninja
(His legacy is a stain on the dress.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Did they also find Batboy?
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:54:51 PM PST
by
Bullish
( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Bugs Bunny had a run in with one in 1943
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:58:39 PM PST
by
grjr21
To: HalleysFifth
I KNEW somebody would do this! My elementary school principal had a purple one.
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posted on
11/18/2008 7:00:44 PM PST
by
NellieMae
(Here...... common sense,common sense,common sense,where'd ya go... common sense......)
To: al baby
Obama is the Messiah he is restoring the earthThat's all well and good, but when he starts bringing back dinosaurs we're screwed.
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posted on
11/18/2008 7:01:08 PM PST
by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
To: NellieMae
I KNEW somebody would do this! My elementary school principal had a purple one. OVERSHARE!!
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posted on
11/18/2008 7:02:16 PM PST
by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
To: CougarGA7
“That’s all well and good, but when he starts bringing back dinosaurs we’re screwed.”
he’s already done that, the Clintons.
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posted on
11/18/2008 7:14:04 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: Jet Jaguar
To: Free ThinkerNY
The eyes are normally narrow slits but this one reacts upon learning what will happen to it should the likes of Barney Frank ever get their hands on it.
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posted on
11/18/2008 7:16:03 PM PST
by
fso301
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