Tarsiers: Past, Present, and FuturePatricia C. Wright, Elwyn L. Simons, Sharon Gursky-Doyen Rutgers University Press, 2003 - 324 páginas Tarsiiformes, or tarsiers for short, are a group of living species of special interest to primatologists because their combination of derived and ancient characters make them pivotal to understanding the roots of primate evolution. These small-bodied, nocturnal, solitary creatures resemble lower primates in their behavior but genetically, DNA evidence aligns them more closely with higher primates, such as monkeys, apes, and humans. These astounding creatures exhibit an ability found in no other living mammal3⁄4they can turn their heads 180 degrees in either direction to see both prey and predators. The world's only exclusive carnivorous primate, they eat live food (primarily insects, but the occasional vertebrate, such as lizards, snakes, or frogs will also do). This unique combination of behavior and anatomy makes the tarsier an especially interesting and controversial animal for study among primate behaviorists, evolutionists, and taxonomists, who view the tarsiers as "living fossils" that link past and present, lower and higher, primates in the long chain of evolutionary history. |
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... TARSIERS Past , Present , and Future Edited by Patricia C. Wright , Elwyn L. Simons , and Sharon Gursky RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS New Brunswick , New Jersey , and London Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Tarsiers.
... Press , 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue , Piscataway , NJ 08854-8099 . The only exception to this prohibition is " fair use " as defined by U.S. copyright law . Manufactured in the United States of America This book is dedicated to Mandarin . D ...
... are grateful to Rutgers University Press , especially to our editors Helen Hsu and Audra Wolfe ; to Adi Hovav ; to Alice Calaprice for copyedit- ing and to Carol Inskip for indexing . TARSIERS : I Figure 1.1 . Skeleton of Tarsius . XV III.
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Ecology and Conservation Status of Tarsius Bancanus Saltator on Belitung ... Indra Yustian Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |