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Palu : Indonesia | 11 months ago  
How cool is this?! This is a primate species and nocturnal creature called a pygmy tarsier. It is only about the size of a mouse. Pygmy tarsiers are among the rarest of the many tarsier...
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    A team of researchers led by an anthropologist from Texas A&M University have found a group of pygmy tarsiers, primates that have not been seen alive in 85 years. Anthropologist Sharon Gursky-Doyen and her team navigated moist, ...
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    Several scientists believed they were extinct until two Indonesian scientists trapping rats in the highlands of Sulawesi accidentally trapped and killed a pygmy tarsier in 2000. (Photo credit: Sharon Gursky-Doyen)
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    That was until researchers on a summer expedition captured, tagged, and released three members of the species (including this individual, above). "Everyone's always talking about pygmy tarsiers," said lead researcher Sharon Gursky-Doyen ...

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