Name _____Ladesma, James Patrick B.

Date 4/29/2022
Course/Section/Schedule __ ZGE_1107/DAAF/TTH 1:00pm-2:30pm Score _______

Activity _M9_
Philippine Wildlife Species Profile

1. Common name ______The Philippine Tarsier_ _

2. Scientific name _______ Tarsiidae___________

3. IUCN Red List conservation status _____ Threatened________

4. Location ___ The islands of Samar, Leyte, Bohol, and Mindanao, as

well as a few smaller islands like Dinagat and Basilan, are home to these
primates._____________

5. Describe the animal’s habitat

______ In tropical rainforests, Philippine tarsiers can be found in regions with long grasses, bushes,
bamboo shoots, and tiny trees. They adore leaping from limb to limb across the jungle canopy.

6. List the animal’s principal sources of food

______ Tarsiers eat only arthropods, such as spiders, beetles, termites, cicadas, ants, moths,
caterpillars, katydids, crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, and walkingsticks.

7. List the animal’s principal enemies in the wild

______ Civets, arboreal snakes, monitor lizards, and raptors, such as owls, are all potential predators of
tarsiers. Tarsiers are preyed upon by feral cats as well.___________________________________

8. What elements in the animal’s habitat are most important for its survival?
Tarsiers can be found in both primary and secondary rainforests, but prefer secondary
growth. This is probably owing to the quantity of food in secondary growth woods._______

9. What factors are threatening or endangering its survival?

______ Hunting, agricultural pollution, and human disturbance are all threats to habitat degradation
and fragmentation. Tarsiers are shy creatures who prefer not to interact with humans.

10. What steps are being taken to protect and preserve the animal?
______ Local businesspeople in Bohol created the Philippine Tarsier Foundation Incorporated, or PTFI,
in 1996 to conserve and maintain the rare endemic mammal. The non-profit foundation wants to
protect the Philippine tarsier by providing environmentally friendly tourism to the province of Bohol.
The foundation manages an 8.4-hectare sanctuary as part of the effort, which is set within a wider
protected forest that is home to over a thousand Philippine tarsiers and is protected by a permanent
logging ban.
11. What are its chances of survival?
______ Various species, including the Philippine Tarsier, are the subject of conservation efforts.
Captive wild tarsiers have a 50% survival rate, and many die of stress by committing "suicide."

12. What other steps could be taken to preserve this species?

______ People must refrain from photographing tarsiers in areas where camera flashes may lead
them to become stressed and commit suicide. The best thing you can do is donate to groups like the
Philippine Tarsier Foundation, Incorporated, that are working to save the tarsier.

13. Why it is important to preserve this species?

_____ Tarsier is significant to evolutionary biologists and taxonomists because it is regarded to be the
most primitive of the tarsiers, allowing researchers to better understand primate evolution.________