(Texas A&M) Sharon Gursky-Doyen trapped, tagged and tracked three specimens in the summer of 2008, confirming that the pint-sized primates really do still exist.
Furby Look-Alike Appears in Indonesia
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NOVEMBER 30, 2009
John Roach, MSNBC

A primate that looks like a shrunken version of the popular Furby electronic toy has shown up on a mountain in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Several scientists had given up on the pygmy tarsiers. Then a dead specimen was found in a rat trap in 2000, which sent Texas A&M anthropologist Sharon Gursky-Doyen sleuthing. She trapped, tagged and tracked three specimens in the summer of 2008, confirming that the pint-sized primates really do still exist.
The IUCN lists pygmy tarsiers as data deficient since so little is known about the species. Gursky-Doyen and her colleagues hope the rediscovery will put pressure on the Indonesian government to protect the primate's habitat within Lore Lindu National Park. About 60 villages are inside the 2,000-square-kilometer park's boundaries and are encroaching on the Furby-like critter's mountain habitat.
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