Tupai: A Field Study of Bornean Treeshrews

Louise H. Emmons

Published by University of California Press 2000

Tupai

A Field Study of Bornean Treeshrews

Louise H. Emmons

Volume 2 in the series Organisms and Environments

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520925045

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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 still are 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. Noted tropical mammalogist Louise H. Emmons conducted this pathbreaking study in the rainforests of Borneo as she tracked and observed six species of treeshrews. Emmons meticulously describes their habitat, diet, nesting habits, home range, activity patterns, social behavior, and many other facets of their lives. She also discusses a particularly interesting aspect of treeshrews: their enigmatic parental care system, which is unique among mammals.

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Emmons Louise H. :

Louise H. Emmons is a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution Division of Mammals. She is the author of Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide (second edition, 1997).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Foreword Harry W. Greene Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Chapter 1. Tupai: An Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. The Study Species Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Chapter 3. The Milieu: Field Study Sites and Habitats Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Chapter 4. Treeshrews in Their Habitat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Chapter 5. Diet and Foraging Behavior Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 6. Nesting Behavior Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 7. Activity Patterns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Chapter 8. Use of Space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Chapter 9. Social Organization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chapter 10. Life History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 11. Predation, Predators, and Alarm Behaviors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Chapter 12. Synthesis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Appendix I. Methods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Appendix II. Fruit Species Collected at Danum Valley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Appendix III. Mammal Species Found on the Study Plots Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Appendix IV. Invertebrates in Treeshrew Diets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Appendix V. Consumers of Fruit Species Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Appendix VI. Response of Murid Rodents to the Masting Phenomenon of 1990-1991 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 287

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Published: December 12, 2000
ISBN: 9780520925045