Actually it’s not really cuddly since you can’t touch them as they are endangered. This centre is set up as a protective habitat in the hopes that they don’t go extinct.

At the moment they are only found in the Philippines and Borneo and they are threatened since we like to cut down the forests that they live in.  Apparently cats are also a problem.  The Tarsier itself is tiny, only about the size of my hand.

They are nocturnal, so in the day they don’t really do very much.  I think it makes sense around here since it was 38 degrees yesterday when I went to see them.

Getting there was interesting. The bridge to cross the Loboc river got destroyed in the earthquake last year, so I took an alternate route through the jungle on a motorbike.  It was quite rough in places but I made it there eventually. Apparently I remember how to ride a motorbike and have not ran into anything yet!