1. The orient has three species of tarsiers.

2. Tarsiers feed mainly on insects and their larvae but can catch small lizards, fledgling birds, spiders and forest mice.

3. As their name indicates, pygmy tarsiers are small -- weighing about 2 ounces ( 50 grammes ).

4. Charlotte Uhlenbroek is in Indonesia looking for tarsiers who may give us some clues.

5. Just before dawn, the tarsiers start squeaking, telling each other it is bedtime.

6. Tarsiers look very much like other early primates[http://], but their eyes are huge - each one weighs more than its brain.

7. Both tarsiers and lorises have a role in slowing and then reversing habitat loss in this region.

8. Trade of tarsiers is permitted by CITES - but what for?

9. This sub-order, which is further down the evolutionary scale. includes the Tarsiidae, or tarsiers.

10. Since a social life is more typical of daytime animals, this is further evidence that tarsiers ventured into the light.

11. Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs lorisesand tarsiers.