Friday 9 January 2015

Absurd Creature of the Week: The Tiny, Giant-Eyed Primate That Was Probably the Inspiration for Yoda

Absurd Creature of the Week: The Tiny, Giant-Eyed Primate That Was Probably the Inspiration for Yoda

What I’m about to say could well ignite sectarian conflict within the Star Wars fan community, but I’m pretty sure I know what the inspiration for Yoda was. It was a tiny, wide-eyed, positively adorable primate that bounds around the forests of Indonesia and the Philippines and Borneo: the tarsier.


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from WIRED » Science http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661470/s/42272328/sc/36/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A150C0A10Cabsurd0Ecreature0Eof0Ethe0Eweek0Etarsier0C/story01.htm

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