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Hello everybody! Happy #monday! throwing back some Photo taken from fb of PTFI guide Sheila. :) #tarsiersanctuary#corellatarsier#tarsierfoundation#ptfi
Helping comes in many forms such as visiting us in our tarsier sanctuary in Corella, taking a photo a uploading in on any social media with "Corellatarsier" "tarsierfoundation"… Spread the love! Gratitude to all! :)
Fruits Trees from Tzu Chi
“To help preserve the world’s smallest primate” and the Mother Earth as a whole.”-excerpts from Tzu Chi Foundation
Last October 22, 2016, Philippine Tarsier Foundation, Corella Tarsier Sanctuary got a wonderful visit from Tzu Chi Foundation. The visit was primarily for biodiversity support of the Tarsier Sanctuary by planting close to 140 insect host plants which are basically fruit trees.
The fruit trees would attract insects such as beetles and grasshoppers which are the ideal food for tarsiers… not fruit and certainly not worms! Not matter how mega or superworm they are. Or no matter how cultured those maybe.
Plus the Tarsiers health primarily rests on their need to hunt and that means allowing them to roam for more than 1 kilometer every night to catch live insects. That is why caging them would never work! And claims of breeding them in a 20 meter square area is just simple–IMPOSSIBLE! 🙂
Tarsier population in Corella is growing and therefore the need for insects too is increasing, and these fruit trees are a GREAT HELP.
Sad But True: Other tarsier sites in Bohol (because tarsiers scattered all over Bohol) are experiencing a decrease in tarsier numbers so much since the areas too have tarsier viewing facilities which are simply for profit no matter how fancy they call themselves be and tarsiers just aren’t happy with mahogany trees.
Thank you Tzu Chi for the warm support. May the world be filled with amazing humans like you.
From Spain to #Tarsierfoundation! thank you guys for visiting us and thanks Clowie, our very own part-time field guide (currently a tourism student) for keeping the things fun and positive!#corella#philippinetarsierfoundation #tarsier#ptfiguests
We are now OPEN!!! :)#tarsier#corella#ptfi#ptfiguests #tarsierfoundation
gues who visited?:) #goodmorning#tarsiersanctuarybohol #ptfi#ptfiguests
PIRATE!!!
It’s a sad but true story… Approximately three weeks ago we’ve discovered that one of our Tarsiers looks a bit different and is nlacking i one eye! Quite fast gained a new name – Pirate. At the beginning we weren’t sure if it will survive in a natural environment. A little tarsier has to hunt for most of the night thus it needs to be in a perfect shape. Tarsier has to be a great hunter in order to catch a big amount of insects. Apparently our pirate is doing well enough, has survived those past weeks and is getting better now.
 A ‘huggable looking’ tarsier at day time, is a great predator at night time! What is surprising, tarsiers can fight with each other, first of all – for the territory, second of all – for the females! And mating season is on now… The two males while fighting in order to charm a female can even kill each other! Cruel but real natural environment is not for the weak ones… But our pirate doesn’t have any other scars or injuries which rather occur right after the fight. Which leads to another theory, it could be just a bad accident or a big beetle bite.
But whatever that was, the good news is he is alive and is doing fine in the natural habitat. Which proves he is in deed one tough tarsier. Animals do do well in their natural environment.
by Kamila Fy
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