The Eosimias fossils also suggest that early anthropoids developed from animals related to modern tarsiers and an extinct group called omomyids, he adds. |
Primates including forest-dwelling ancestors of today's lemurs and tarsiers flourished in the trees. |
Those that remained, a few tarsiers, lorises and lemurs, could be viewed as a somewhat unprogressive lot, relative to the heyday of prosimian radiations. |
Besides gibbons, singing primates include the Madagascan lemurs called indris, the tarsiers of Sulawesi, and the tiff monkeys of South America. |
Saucer-eyed tarsiers, pale moon rats and scruffy stink badgers perch stiffly in glass cases. |