Tupai: A Field Study of Bornean Treeshrews Volume 2

by Louise H. Emmons

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520223845
• ISBN13: 9780520223844
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"