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Treeshrews suffer from chronic mistaken identity: they are not shrews, and most are not found in trees. These squirrel-sized, brownish mammals with large, dark, lashless eyes were at one time thought to be primates. Even though most scientists now believe them to belong in their own mammalian order, Scandentia, they are still thought to resemble some of the earliest mammals, which lived alongside the dinosaurs. This book describes the results of the first comparative study of the ecology of treeshrews in the wild, which the author conducted in the rainforests of Borneo as she tracked and obser ... More
Keywords: treeshrews, mistaken identity, lashless eyes, Scandentia, rainforests, Borneo, habitat, diet, nesting habits, home range
Print publication date: 2000 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520222915 |
Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520222915.001.0001 |
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