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n. - Nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing.

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  • The tarsier is a native of the East Indies jungles from Sumatra to the
  • The smallest kind of tarsier was believed to be extinct until it was found last month on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
  • All this, plus cool big-eye tarsier skeleton piccies.
  • Getty Images A tarsier, an endangered primate native to the islands.
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