Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 3 species of tarsier, in the family Tarsiidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 3.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
2 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in 13 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Each of its eyes weighs more than its brain and it cannot move them within the socket, so it turns its head almost 180 degrees, like an owl.
From Western Tarsier
Like all tarsiers, it belongs to the only group of primates in the world whose diet is entirely animal: it eats no fruit and no plant matter at all.
From Western Tarsier
Its eyes are larger than its brain and it cannot move them: it turns its head 180 degrees instead.
From Spectral Tarsier
It communicates in ultrasound: its calls reach frequencies far above the limit of human hearing, so a whole group can be calling without a person a metre away hearing a thing.
From Spectral Tarsier
Pairs sing a duet at dawn, just before retiring to sleep, a ritual that announces the territory and keeps the group together.
From Spectral Tarsier
Unable to move its eyes within their sockets, it has evolved neck vertebrae that let it turn its head almost 180 degrees, much as an owl does.
From Philippine Tarsier
It eats insects and occasionally small vertebrates such as lizards, frogs and small birds.
From Philippine Tarsier
It lives in lowland rainforest, bamboo stands and dense scrub on several islands of the Philippines.
From Philippine Tarsier