Tropical Wildlife. Jane Whitten

and montane forests. These tiny primates, weighing no more than 135 g, have enormous eyes. Each eye weighs a little more than the whole brain, giving them excellent night vision for hunting. They catch beetles, cockroaches, ants, birds and sometimes snakes by leaping at them and pinning them down with one or both hands, often on the ground,

      Tarsiers are most active in the hour or so before dawn. The adults and their offspring head back to their sleeping sites in thickets among vine or fig tangles, or in tree holes, Just before retiring the family sings a complex call notifying all those with an interest in the matter that they are still alive and defending their one-hectare territory, the boundaries of which they will have marked out with drops of odoriferous urine during the night.

      Slow loris, Nycticebus coucang

      Slow loris, Nycticebus coucang

      Western tarsier, Tarsius bancanus

      Spectral tarsier, Tarsius spectrum

      Wild Cattle