tarsier
esiegel | February 2, 2013"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." -Mark Twain
I am unimpressed with speculations that have no basis in fact, but if you can show how your claims are factually grounded and arrived at, they're certainly worth a listen to. And if your facts, logic and extrapolations are sound, you might even, as Sarah Jarosz sings,
Tell Me True.
Of course, if they're a little suspect instead, you can either lead people astray, or alternatively, create some of the best humor and satire ever created.
This weekend, I proudly introduce to you a series of nature videos by YouTube user…
zooillogix | November 20, 2008"Scientists" tell us that the tarsier is the only member of its lonely family Tarsiidae, which itself is the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes... We here at Zooillogix think they might be more closely related to other species than zoologists think...
Pygmy tarsier vs. Furby
Pygmy tarsier vs. Mogwai
Pygmy tarsier vs. Jabba
Pygmy tarsier vs. Little grey
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Pygmy tarsier vs. Little Fuzzy
Credit to Mad Hussein LOL Scientist
Pygmy tarsier vs. Gilbert Gottfried
(Maybe the hands?) Credit to Katie Thompson
Pygmy tarsier vs. Critters
Credit to Benji Bleimanowitz
Pygmy…
zooillogix | November 19, 2008High in the mountaintop forests of Indonesia, this little Furby-gremlin hybrid hid undiscovered (and unmolested) for the last ninety years. Last seen alive in the 1920s, the pygmy tarsier was thought extinct until researchers from Texas A&M University rediscovered the little guy last month.
Pygmy tarsier is not amused.
Over a 2.5 month period, the scientists trapped two males and one female in Lore-Lindu National Park. After taking measurements and affixing radio collars, the researchers were unable to resist the urge to love them, and hug them, and squeeze them and call them George.…
zooillogix | June 30, 2008Tarsiers are prosimian primates, sharing their primitive grouping with lemurs, bushbabies and the aye-aye. However, due to numerous similarities to ancestral monkeys, apes and humans, there is some disagreement as to whether tarsiers should be grouped with the other prosimians in the Suborder Strepsirrhini or with the monkeys and friends in the Suborder Haplorrhini. The tarsier finds all of this debate quite dull and prefers to spend its time eating insects and bird eggs.
These pictures were taken by our friend's father in the jungles of the central Philippines.
They look pissed.
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bleimanb | March 11, 2008Almost a year ago we posted the Dramatic Chipmunk. Turns out he's got a cousin...