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nounnocturnal 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 vertebratestype of:
Definition that contains tarsier
- primates an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
- order primates an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
- family tarsiidae coextensive with the genus Tarsius: tarsiers
- tarsiidae coextensive with the genus Tarsius: tarsiers
- omomyid extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
- tarsius glis a variety of tarsier
- omomyid group extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
- tarsius syrichta a variety of tarsier