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tarsier
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tarsier
small, arboreal, almost hairless, South East Asian monkey, thought to be the ancestor of humans.
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You can see the world''s smallest primate here - the tarsiers.
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Back on the artificial hanging bridge across a pool in the reserve, I happily took stock of how many tarsiers I had captured in my camera.
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A major focus of recent paleoanthropological research has been to establish the origin of anthropoid primates (monkeys, apes and humans) from earlier and more primitive primates known as prosimians (lemurs, tarsiers and their extinct relatives).
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