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TYPES OF ANIMAL LIFE 



slow-moving lemuroids last noticed. This little animal 

 is the tarsier. To a certain extent it lesembles the 

 galagos. It has large eyes and ears, and a long tail 

 tufted at the end, but it carries to a yet greater degree 



THE TARSIER. 



the prolongation of the two ankle bones, so that there is 

 a most distinct thin elongated segment of the leg be- 

 tween the shin and the foot. This gives the little animal 

 great power of jumping, and in that way it moves 

 about actively at night, in pursuit of insects and other 

 small animals on which it largely feeds. It has but 



