Prospects for the Creation of Tarsier’s Populations ex situ
- Authors: Ruchkina Z.S.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow Zoo
- Issue: Vol 145, No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 44-66
- Section: Articles
- Submitted: 01.06.2025
- Accepted: 01.06.2025
- Published: 01.06.2025
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0042-1324/article/view/294690
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0042132425010052
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/DMFVQM
- ID: 294690
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Abstract
The limited distribution of tarsiers and their strict adherence to tropical forests, which are subject to extensive degeneration, puts all taxonomic groups of tarsiers at risk of extinction. Therefore, one of the ways to preserve tarsiers may be to create viable populations of them, bred in artificial conditions. Taking into account this problem, the article examines the issues of systematics, ecology, biology, morphology, anatomy, as well as the experience of keeping, feeding and producing offspring of oriental (Tarsius), Western (Cephalopachus) and Philippine (Carlito) tarsiers from the point of view of creating optimal conditions for their stay in a zoo.
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Z. S. Ruchkina
Moscow Zoo
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Email: zinaidaru17@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
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