Look at this:
This little Being has not been seen for 70 years. People thought they were extinct, and some even thought they were legend, even though an individual was found in 1916 and 1930.
A few were recently rediscovered alive in the mountain rainforests of Indonesia.
They’re called “pymy tarsiers.” Some people say these tiny primates remind them of gremlins or a toy called a Furby, but these little Beings are only 4 inches tall including tail. They have claws instead of nails, and people can’t hear their language or voices.
They remind me of the Kodama, the little forest spirits in the epic film Princess Mononoke that leave your bloodstream tingling with their otherworldliness.
Here’s what the scientist who caught one in a mist net (after deploying 276 mist nets and breaking her fibula in the high, “dangerous” terrain) said:
One clue came when the scientists saw a tarsier open its mouth in the wild. “It looked like it might be vocalizing, but I couldn’t hear anything,” Gursky-Doyen said. She speculated that the creature might have been calling in frequencies that couldn’t be heard by humans, but were well-suited to cut through the cacophony of forest rainfall.
Given that millions of acres of Indonesian primeval forest are being bulldozed, destroyed and burned down to the ground and converted into palm oil plantations for “biofuel,” (thereby making Indonesia the third worst carbon polluter after the U.S. and China), while driving the orangutan and the Indonesian forest primeval toward extinction (so much killing of life, as every square foot of forest they attack is filled with living animals) the similarity between this pygmy tarsier, the Kodama and the breathtaking filmPrincess Mononoke — one of the best films ever made — is more than a little haunting.
Watch Princess Mononoke on DVD when you get the chance.
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Wed, Nov 19, 2008
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