Bol-anon’s pride is an endemic fauna– The tarsiers. This charming little creature is the smallest living primate in the world and is considered endangered. It can fit into a child’s palm and a tail longer than its body weighing around 130 grams.
The most notable feature of the tarsiers is its enormous eyes, 150 times bigger than human eye. Each eye is actually bigger than its brain. Their eyesight is aided by the turning of their head up to 180 degrees right, and 180 degrees left.
They are nocturnal animals– asleep during the day and are active at night. So during the day, while tourists visit and watch, their eyes are open but they’re actually sleeping. They don’t close their eyes when sleeping. They only close their eyes when they get stressed. They don’t move that much.
Before, it’s allowed to touch the tarsiers while you take pictures with it. But now, it has been prohibited by the government as it stresses these creatures that will lead to the cause of its death. Tarsiers are suicidal, constantly banging their head on the branch when it gets upset until it dies.
The sites where one can visit tarsiers do not require payment but encourage visitors to give donation out of their kind hearts for these creatures’ sustenance. Tarsiers eat insects like lizards, worms, crickets and grasshoppers.
TRIVIA: The female gives birth to one offspring. The infant is born with its eyes open. The females carry their infants in their mouth. A new-born can already cling to branches and in less than a month after birth, it can start leaping.
Joanne Micolle 