Endemic to maritime southeast Asia, the Philippines tarsier, scientifically known as Carlito syrichta and called amas by several indigenous tribes, is a haplorrhine primate that has for so long bee…
Endemic to maritime southeast Asia, the Philippines tarsier, scientifically known as Carlito syrichta and called amas by several indigenous tribes, is a haplorrhine primate that has for so long been a curiosity in Davao region’s forest fastnesses where vegetation was largely intact.
Hamlet’s team, however, is particularly interesting given that he was joined in his special zoological research by Dr. Charles Heizer Wharton, a research ecologist who was in Manila at the time writing some articles for The National Geographic Magazine. In appreciation, Dr. Wharton committed a blunder by offering $5 for each mammal, the equivalent of two-week plantation labor. The prospect of earning more income from catching tarsiers literally sent the Manobos to the thick forest in a frenetic search. Not long thereafter, a number of catchers returned with 20 tarsiers carried inside wire cages.
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