The 12th Tarsier of Togean
It took more than a quarter century to ascertain that the tarsier found on the Togean islands is a completely new species. It was named Tarsius niemitzi in honor of ‘the father of tarsier biology’.
Dody Hidayat
October 22, 2019
ANIMAL behavioral specialist Carsten Niemitz in 1991 had suspected that the tarsier he saw on the Togean islands in Central Sulawesi was taxonomically different from other tarsier species. The German scientist, widely regarded as ‘the father of tarsier biology’, and his student, Alexandra Nietsch, subsequently conducted a field research there. The findings summarized in the paper titled Diversity of Sulawesi Tarsiers were published in
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