Hero of the Tarsiers

In the Philippines, 12 year old Carlito Pizarras went towards his prey, a animal in a tree. Both he and his brother shook the tree and stopped when the animal fell. He was smiling as he was heading home with the animal under his shirt. As a boy his expertise was capturing cute little monkeys. He gave these to his father to sell in the marketplace. In that time he had no idea that he would be their protectors. He gave the pet plenty, but couldn't keep his health from deteriorating. He decided to take one as a pet, not knowing how to keep the animal a live. He studied them in the town library. However the only information he found was that they consumed charcoal. He then found out they eat the insects inside of the charcoal. His next pet got the right of insects from crickets, grasshoppers to other bugs. They weren't ideal pets Carlito soon found out. They didn't belong in cages. In fact they would injure themselves trying to escape. Carlito kept catching them for his father, despite his feelings of it being wrong. He had to search a lot more, because they were disappearing. People were both hunting them as well as destroying there habitats. Carlito now devoted his time to their protection. He showed people how to plant crops on the flatlands, showing people that they didn't have to kill them. He was busy, all day he worked the farm and at night he tended to the Tarsiers. Behind his home he built a huge cage for them with trees inside. He learned how to keep them alive and how to have them to have young. When they matured he released them to the wild. Carlito was not able to keep them as pets unfortunately.