Tarsius tarsier

Habitat. Selayar Island lacks tall mountains, and tarsiers can be found from sea level to the highest hills. The bedrock is mostly uplifted coral, leading to thin poor soil and sparse vegetation. The Selayar Tarsier occurs mostly in degraded and secondary growth patches and farmland scrub.

Sumber: Tarsiidae

Movements, Home range and Social organization. There islittle specific information available for this species. One trapped family consisted of an adult male, an adult female, a subadult female, two juveniles, and one or more animals that escaped capture. By comparison with othertarsiers, the Selayar Tarsier probably lives in small monogamous or polygamous family groups. Their ranging behavior has never been studied, but the home range size is probably similar to that of other lowland eastern tarsiers.

Sumber: Tarsiidae

Status and Conservation. CITES Appendix II. Classified as Vulnerable on The IUCN Red List. However, the last IUCN assessment considered all Sulawesi tarsiers that had not been attributed to other species, and the Selayar Tarsier is now known to be restricted to Selayar Island, with total area of occurrence of ¢. 820 km? (the entire island). Selayar is a proposed site for a large oil refinery, most of the forest there has been modified or lost, and there are no protected areas. As such, it may be necessary to change their conservation status to Critically Endangered.

Sumber: Tarsiidae