Two weeks after the female in the enclosure gave birth (we informed you about it in previous news) we found out that our radio-collared female has a baby. Considering that we have only two radio-collared males and one female, it was very pleasant event for us. We follow the mother and baby every day, but she usually alow us to follow her only for few hours in the evening before she get lost in the trees. We focus on their communication and also progress in development that the young tarsier has done during the first month.

The work on the project keeps going well. We were recently pleased by a visit of a professional wildlife photographer Petr Slavík…

Petr spent a week on the site a tried to fully absorb all the impressions. As a wildlife photographer he travels all around the globe to animals and thus the tropical rainforest environment was natural for him. I was surprised and pleased though that right after the arrival, having a cold and being tired from two days long air travel, he jumped into browsing the forest with an antenna until 1 AM searching for the tiny tarsiers with me in a real tropical downpour. And more was to come. Within a week Petr managed to shot unique and – I dare to say – so far the best photos of the Philippine tarsier which you will soon have a chance to admire on the author’s website. I can already reveal that we successfully recorded the mother in the enclosure of whom we informed you in the previous news.

We named the baby Cipisek (after a popular child character from TV) and it was amazing to observe how he evolves during the week. We also have unique shots of a hunting tarsier. Petr Slavík significantly helped with his photographs to support the Tarsius Project and both we and the tarsiers are thankful for that. You can also read a text about mapping of the terrain on Radio Leonardo website [in Czech only]