The Philippine tarsier, (Tarsius syrichta) is very peculiar small animal. In fact it is one of the smallest known primates, no larger than a adult men's hand. Mostly active at night, it lives on a diet of insects. Folk traditions sometimes has it that tarsiers eat charcoal, but actually they retrieve the insects from (sometimes burned) wood. It can be found in the islands of Samar, Leyte, Bohol, and Mindanao in the Philippines.
If no action is taken, the tarsier might not survive. Although it is a protected species, and the practice of catching them and then selling them as stuffed tarsiers to tourists has stopped, the species is still threatened by the destruction of his natural forest habitat. Many years of both legal and illegal logging and slash-and-burn agriculture have greatly reduced these forests, and reduced the tarsier population to a dangerously small size. If no action is taken now, the Philippine tarsier can soon be added to the list of extinct species.
the surrounding area of the falls had been turned into a 'tourist-friendly' destination, with 197 concrete steps leading down towards the falls. though the concrete steps may be a disappointment for adventure-seekers hoping to see an unexploited natural attraction, still, mag-aso falls is a sight that one shouldn't pass up.
mag-aso falls derived its name from the Visayan term 'aso,' meaning smoke, which refers to the smoke effect created by the cascading waters.
