BOHOL- 2/24/2012

"Be happy, be budoy!" greets our guide at Tarsier Nature Reserve.  Tarsiers became endangered because they were dying due to rough handling by visitors.  Tarsiers are very delicate, solitary creatures, so named because in their hands have a tarsal bone.  Tiny as they are, the tarsier is really five animals in one:
They have the ears of a bat, eyes of an owl, a tail like a rat (11 inches long), hands like a gecko (including the suctions at the ends of each tip), and the body of a mouse.  Do I have these right?

We also visited a butterfly park today, something I've always wanted to do.  Our guide Jemer was quite clever with words,  describing butterfly mating as "24/7 boom-boom, sir/ma'am", the hermaphrodite nature of some of the butterflies as "ladyboys".

CHOCO-LAT Hills.  Located in the interior of the island of Bohol, all 1,280 of the Chocolate Hills (no, I did not count them myself) were formed by calcium deposits, rain and erosion.  From this very skeletal information, can you tell I am not a geology major?  I will upload the plaque showing more thorough info here.   During this time of year, the chocolate hills are lush with greenery so they don't look so chocolaty.