World's tiniest monkey under threat

Published: 1 June 2009 y., Monday

This is a tarsier monkey. It's one of the smallest on earth and is only found in South East Asia.
But now the tarsier is the brink of extinction in Indonesia's Sulawesi Island.

Šaltinis: Reuters
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