Tupai : a field study of Bornean treeshrews / Louise H. Emmons ; foreword by Harry W. Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emmons, Louise.

Series:

Organisms and environments ; 2.

Organisms and environments ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tupaiidae.

Tupaiidae--Borneo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Tupai: An Introduction

Chapter 2. The Study Species

Chapter 3. The Milieu: Field Study Sites and Habitats

Chapter 4. Treeshrews in Their Habitat

Chapter 5. Diet and Foraging Behavior

Chapter 6. Nesting Behavior

Chapter 7. Activity Patterns

Chapter 8. Use of Space

Chapter 9. Social Organization

Chapter 10. Life History

Chapter 11. Predation, Predators, and Alarm Behaviors

Chapter 12. Synthesis

Appendix I. Methods

Appendix II. Fruit Species Collected at Danum Valley

Appendix III. Mammal Species Found on the Study Plots

Appendix IV. Invertebrates in Treeshrew Diets

Appendix V. Consumers of Fruit Species

Appendix VI. Response of Murid Rodents to the Masting Phenomenon of 1990-1991

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-259).

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612355073

9781597349680

1597349682

9781282355071

1282355074

9780520925045

0520925041

OCLC:

475931706