However, CNN retains full editorial control over all of its reports. Read the policy. CNN — With its teeny tiny body, bat-like ears and bug eyes, the Philippine tarsier might be the most peculiar primate on earth. It's also the second-smallest, weighing just three to five ounces and measuring up to six inches long. Just how tiny is that? About the size of an adult palm. Native to the southeastern Philippines , the million-year-old species faces a triple threat to its existence: low birth rates, exploitative tourism and habitat destruction from logging and mining.
According to the International Primate Protection League , there are between 5, and 10, Philippine tarsiers left in the wild and the number is plummeting. In recent years, the Philippine tarsier was named a specially protected faunal species by the government and designated as "near threatened" by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. They don't have that many homes in the world. In tarsier territory. Normally found in the evergreen and semi-evergreen forests of Vietnam, Laos, and China, the endangered northern white-cheeked gibbon has nearly disappeared from the wild.
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The haplorrhines cannot manufacture their own vitamin C, have a large range of facial expressions and their primary sense is vision. Originally it was thought that all Tarsiers belonged to the same Genus Tarsius and there were ten species present within this grouping. There was some confusion over which species were most closely related and whether some were separate species or actually subspecies.
It can be difficult to classify Tarsiers and often vocalizations were used rather than morphology appearance while very little was known about some of the more isolated populations.
In it was proposed that the Tarsius genus should be split into three to reflect the differences between the species in terms of appearance, vocalizations, social structure and distribution.
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