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tarsier

DEFINITIONS OF: tarsier

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n nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates

Types:
Tarsius syrichta
a variety of tarsier
Tarsius glis
a variety of tarsier
Type of:
primate
any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
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