Talk:Tarsier
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Suicide
The following was removed from the article:
- Tarsiers have also been documented to commit suicide when they are removed from their original habitat.
Does anyone have any source info for this? - UtherSRG 20:09, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Well, I found this, http://www.szgdocent.org/pp/p-tarsir.htm V 10:37, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks. It says soething not quite the same as what was inthe article. I'll massage that site's info into the article. Thanks. - UtherSRG 16:00, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I removed "Some are extremely traumatised by captivity, killing themselves by banging their heads against the cage." The wording isn't exactly the same as the source, so I don't know where we'd stand with copyright, but it's closer than my English teacher would have let me get away with. Also, is this article really a stub anymore? --anon 04:34, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
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Classification
I don't think we should place the Tarsiidae, Tarsiiformes and tarsiers on the same page. The Tarsiiformes does also contain the (big!) extinct family Omomyidae, and Tarsiidae also contains a few extinct genera, so that these taxa aren't the same. Ucucha See Mammal Taxonomy (http://www.geocities.com/mammal_taxonomy/index.html) 04:41, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
