A tarsier is known for its big, beady eyes ... Prof Geoff Boxshall from London's Natural History Museum. "Their eyes are the animal world's equivalent of night-vision goggles." ...

Here are a few things that make the animal so fantastic. Tarsiers have the largest eyes relative to body size of any mammal. Each eyeball is around 16 millimeters in diameter, which is as large as ...

Tarsiers are described as looking much like Gizmo from the movie Gremlins. They are the size of mice with little claws and large eyes and ears, weighing in at a mere two ounces. They have the ability ...

A non-profit organization called out a vlogger from South Cotabato for subjecting tarsiers to “animal harassment” for content in a video that went viral on social media. Social media accounts ...

From eyes the size of a dinner plate to 360-degree vision, these animals boast extraordinarily efficient ways of seeing. Meet the creatures with the most crafty, strange and sophisticated eyes in the ...

Other nocturnal animals have developed extra-large eyes to maximize the amount of light they capture. The tarsier, a tree-living primate of southeast Asia, has the largest eyes of any animal in ...

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There is more to treating animals in an appropriate way than keeping them healthy. Are we right to use animals as objects of entertainment? From the welfare point of view it is wrong to keep an ...

By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would look like through their eyes. The images below each show a scene as viewed by a human. Drag the slider to the ...

Practically all living creatures shed tears to clear debris and other irritants from their eyes; however, there is some debate over whether non-human animals cry to express emotions, like sadness ...

September 25, 2024 • New technology is making it easier to find the origins of trafficked wildlife so they can be released back to the habitat they came from, instead of languishing for decades ...