One of the body parts declining in size was a lower leg bone called the tarsus.

其中一个尺寸缩小的身体部位是被称为跗骨的小腿骨。

Even some of our smaller primate cousins like this tarsier.

甚至还有一些比我们体型更小的灵长类近亲，如这只眼镜猴。

A baby tarsier shows off its huge peepers, which are larger than its brain.

一只眼镜猴宝宝炫耀着它巨大的眼睛，比它的大脑还大。

In the Onites apelles the tarsi are so habitually lost that the insect has been described as not having them.

在 Onites apelles 中， 跗骨习惯性地消失了， 以至于这种昆虫被描述为没有它们。

The tarsier's enlarged orbs haven't evolved to make it cuter, however, but to gather as much light as possible.

然而， 眼镜猴扩大的眼球并没有进化成更可爱的样子，而是为了尽可能多地收集光线。

" Furthermore, each leg of mine has seven sections—the coxa, the trochanter, the femur, the patella, the tibia, the metatarsus, and the tarsus" .

" 此外，我的每条腿都由七节骨头构成——髋骨，坐骨，大腿骨，膝盖骨，胫骨，跗骨，蹠骨。"

And when they lined up the tarsus measurements with summer temperature records… Changes in temperature were followed one year later by a change in leg size.

当他们将跗骨的测量数据与夏季温度记录相匹配时… … 便发现一年后，温度的变化会导致其腿的尺寸发生变化。

Take the tarsier, whose eyeballs are each as big as its brain, giving it the biggest eyes compared to head size of all mammals.

以眼镜猴为例， 它的每个眼球都和它的大脑一样大，因此与所有哺乳动物的头部大小相比， 它的眼睛最大。

Kirby has remarked (and I have observed the same fact) that the anterior tarsi, or feet, of many male dung-feeding beetles are often broken off; he examined seventeen specimens in his own collection, and not one had even a relic left.

柯比曾说过（我也观察到同样的事实）， 许多雄性食粪甲虫的前跗节或脚经常被折断；他检查了自己收藏的 17 个标本， 但没有一个标本留存下来。