As if it weren't depressing enough that our favorite animal, the pika, is rapidly becoming extinct, today brings word that "the world's smallest monkey" is also living on borrowed time. Actually, it's not a monkey at all, it's the tarsier, but I guess it's easier to say than "world's smallest animal which may or may not be related to the lemur". In any case, this coming tragedy is not being brought about so much by global warming as it is by people keeping them as pets or tourist attractions, because evidently when you lock them up inside a cage they will bang their heads against the side until they crush their skulls and die. Here is a series of four tarsier photos (click on one and it will go to the next); see how happy the girls are to be cuddling the poor little tarsiers to death in the last one!