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On most nights, the work began in the dark. A team of at least three observers walked quietly in single file, moving slowly along roads, trails and footpaths with flashlights trained on vegetation at both sides of the path. They were looking for a small, nocturnal primate that has long drawn curiosity—and, in many places, mounting concern: the Philippine tarsier. Between July 29, 2022, and Feb. 25, 2023, the night surveys documented what had previously been only anecdotal in Tacloban City: Philippine tarsiers were present in forest patches across three barangays, despite rapid urban expansion in a city that has […]... Keep on reading: In a growing city, tarsiers still cling to Tacloban’s forest patches
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