Their heads can be rotated one hundred and eighty degrees. The legs and arms of these tarsiers are long and slender. Some of their digits have flattened nails and some have claws which are used for grooming. They have pads on their fingers and toes to help cling to branches. Their legs are strong and they are capable of jumping great distances, up to twenty feet.
Tarsiers differ from prosimians because of several characteristics.
These include two grooming claws on each foot, lack of a toothcomb formed by the lower canines and incisors, and a diploid number of eighty chromosomes. The Philippine tarsier is omnivorous. It eats primarily insects, spiders, lizards, and small vertebrate animals such as birds. Reproduction Breeding occurs throughout the year. Tarsier females bear a single young.