Word: tarsiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dogs from Frankfurt, Germany and 97 reptiles from London, including twelve adders, three asps, four viperine snakes, 50 slowworms and two sandboas. On another plane from the Philippines, en route to The Bronx Zoo, came eleven tree shrews, three monkey-eating eagles, 14 giant cloud rats and 30 tarsiers. The tarsier (TIME, March 3), an insect-eating cousin of the monkey, is smaller than a squirrel, weighs only half a pound, has long fingers tipped by adhesive discs. Banjo-eyed is no word for a tarsier; its brown orbs suggest bass drums, at least...
...Thanks to two jungle-trotting G.I.s you may soon get a look at a strange creature from Mindanao called a tarsier...
...soon get a look at one of man's oddest cousins: a hopping, nocturnal, long-tailed-creature called a tarsier. Zoologists are fascinated by tarsiers, which are classed as primates, primitive members of man's own family. But up to now, the tarsier has been admired from afar: there are none in U.S. captivity...
When the war ended, two jungle-trotting G.I.s decided to stay in the Philippines and go tarsier trapping. Captain Harry Hoogstraal made a deal with Chicago's Natural History Museum, and Charles Wharton signed up the Washington Zoo. Then they set off into the jungle country of southern Mindanao, where tarsiers were known to be at large...
...expedition collected 100 live tarsiers, got half of them to Davao in good condition. Among the casualties: a few tarsier babies eaten by their mothers...