The Tarsier is the smallest and only entirely carnivorous primate in the world. Eating insects, birds, snakes, lizards and bats, they are mainly nocturnal and extremely shy. Their enormous eyes are each around 16mm in diameter, and just one of their eyeballs is as large as their entire brain.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tarsiers
The Tarsier is the smallest and only entirely carnivorous primate in the world. Eating insects, birds, snakes, lizards and bats, they are mainly nocturnal and extremely shy. Their enormous eyes are each around 16mm in diameter, and just one of their eyeballs is as large as their entire brain.
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