long lost rare primate paling kecik dijumpai semula!!

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Tiny, long-lost primate rediscovered in Indonesia



This undated handout photo shows a creature called a pygmy tarsier,
believed for the eight decades to have been extinct. One of the world's
smallest and rarest primates, it was rediscovered in Indonesia by Texas
A and M University professor Sharon Gursky-Doyen in August



WASHINGTON (Reuters) – On a misty mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists for the first time in more than eight decades have observed a living pygmy tarsier, one of the planet's smallest and rarest primates.

Over a two-month period, the scientists used nets to trap three furry, mouse-sized pygmy tarsiers -- two males and one female -- on Mt. Rore Katimbo in Lore Lindu National Park in central Sulawesi, the researchers said on Tuesday.

They spotted a fourth one that got away.

The tarsiers, which some scientists believed were extinct, may not have been overly thrilled to be found. One of them chomped Sharon Gursky-Doyen, a Texas A&M University professor of anthropology who took part in the expedition.

"I'm the only person in the world to ever be bitten by a pygmy tarsier," Gursky-Doyen said in a telephone interview.

"My assistant was trying to hold him still while I was attaching a radio collar around its neck. It's very hard to hold them because they can turn their heads around 180 degrees. As I'm trying to close the radio collar, he turned his head and nipped my finger. And I yanked it and I was bleeding."

The collars were being attached so the tarsiers' movements could be tracked.

Tarsiers are unusual primates -- the mammalian group that includes lemurs, monkeys, apes and people. The handful of tarsier species live on various Asian islands.

As their name indicates, pygmy tarsiers are small -- weighing about 2 ounces (50 grammes). They have large eyes and large ears, and they have been described as looking a bit like one of the creatures in the 1984 Hollywood movie "Gremlins."

They are nocturnal insectivores and are unusual among primates in that they have claws rather than finger nails.

They had not been seen alive by scientists since 1921. In 2000, Indonesian scientists who were trapping rats in the Sulawesi highlands accidentally trapped and killed a pygmy tarsier.

"Until that time, everyone really didn't believe that they existed because people had been going out looking for them for decades and nobody had seen them or heard them," Gursky-Doyen said.

Her group observed the first live pygmy tarsier in August at an elevation of about 6,900 feet.

"Everything was covered in moss and the clouds are right at the top of that mountain. It's always very, very foggy, very, very dense. It's cold up there. When you're one degree from the equator, you expect to be hot. You don't expect to be shivering most of the time. That's what we were doing," she said.



tingat aku citer gremlins yang phoebe cates main tuh..(kiut awex tu)....  gremlins ni kalu kena ayaq ajer... mula ler membiak....   tarsier ni muka seghoper cam gremlins ler pulok....      2 ounces ajer????      berat aku sikit ajer dari tarsier nih...  tee hee

sekngucing

aku tak faham la gremlins tu, dia makan coklat ke jadi jahat ha?

iza_yuss

x faham camne

lama dh x tgk citer gremlins nih

smpai haku pon dh lupe kisahnya

time tecik2 tgk x silap haku

kambeng_masam

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ni dah macam muka gremlin yang jaat tu kan?

mindymine

cute but scary....

sekngucing

aku tak faham kenapa dia makan coklat jadi jahat?

obelisk

gremlin yg asal tu baik...tp kalo dia kene air dia akan beranakkan gremlin jahat

sekngucing

ya? kena air? yg aku ingat dia makan coklat (gula2)

kambeng_masam

kalau masuk air dia just jadik macam belahan dedua dan membesar. kalau makan coklat tu yg jadik nakal

JUSTcircle

apsal aku rasa aku sorg jer rasa muka makhluk nih cam binatang madagascar tuh... cute..

mo-mo

Uhhhhh...  


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[ Last edited by  mo-mo at 20-11-2008 08:30 AM ]

sekngucing

lain yg tu kandau yg ni primat kecil

allyce_buzz

cutenya...

JUSTcircle

kandau? ku x paham oerkataan nih lah kucing..

sekngucing

kandau la binatang kat madagascar tu

sekngucing

kalau english panggil lemur, yg tu besar mcm monyet

JUSTcircle

wokeh.. tq.. x tau plak aku bahasa inggeris panggil lemur.. cam nama melayu gakjerk bg aku..

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Originally posted by obelisk at 19-11-2008 10:03 PM
gremlin yg asal tu baik...tp kalo dia kene air dia akan beranakkan gremlin jahat

dia multiply bila kena ayaq.......  tapi mmg jadik unruly... mengaco sumer.....  

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Originally posted by JUSTcircle at 20-11-2008 06:08 PM
wokeh.. tq.. x tau plak aku bahasa inggeris panggil lemur.. cam nama melayu gakjerk bg aku..

ini lemur...



lemur: a nocturnal animal, related to the monkey, with a foxy face and long tail, found on Madagascar



hmmm... tengok  3 kali... ada rupa2 jaycee gak   lemur ni  ekkk terutama bab mata dia... kan jaycee... ....    

JUSTcircle

maknanya aku comel lah kan?