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In a ceremony held in Malacanang, Prince Charles, flanked by President Fidel Ramos and his wife, received two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier" target="_blank" class="news_link" title="Philippine tarsier">tarsiers</a> from a covered basket and briefly held one of them in the palm of his hand before returning the animal to its caretaker.
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Prince Charles did not take the tarsiers home. Instead he turned them over to local group, the Philippine Tarsier Foundation, run by Jesus Alvarez, a former Philippine wildlife official, for care.
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Tarsiers are tiny nocturnal primates with huge eyes. They leap around the trees at night catching insects.
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The ceremony was intended to show Prince Charles' continuing concern for wildlife conservation as well as the planned signing of an order by Mr. Ramos, declaring the Philippine tarsier a protected specie.
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Philippines News Agency
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July 3, 1997: Britain's Prince Charles arrived in the country aboard the royal yacht Britannica