Powered By Blogger

Friday, November 19, 2010

Big eyes, Small Chance

One of the smallest animals, that has begun to go extinct is an animal in the remote part of Indonesia, the Spectral Tarsier. This little creature is a monkey like animal with big eyes and very sticky hands that give it the skill to climb tall trees and that way get its food. The tarsier had eyeballs that can be as big as 16 mm in diameter which make them as big as their brains. It is the only primate that has been classified as a carnivore. It likes to eat birds, snakes, lizards and insects which it gets from the tops of the trees and eats with small fangs.  Its fur in short and gray color, the tarsier uses its claws to brush it regularly making it a very clean animal.
The tarsier is animal who mates very little due to the fact that it is very primate and likes to be alone. When it does mate the tarsier can have one offspring, which learns how to climb after being a day old. Like many in the wild, the animal is going extinct due to human contamination and destruction of its habitat. The tarsier’s food supplies have decreased over the last few years which has decrease its population. The small animal is being helped by the IUCN/SCC Primate Specialist Group which is an organization that specializes on saving primates worldwide. Poor animals, those that have to endure the effects of human activity in the world. Pollution is an effect that is created by all people and if not stopped in time the rest of the animals will begin to disappear.