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Studying mammals: Life in the trees

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David Attenborough looks at life in the trees: examining how species have evolved to cope with arboreal living. In this free course, Studying mammals: Life in the trees, you will learn how lemurs, anteaters, bears and many others have developed different methods to help movement and survival.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Life in the trees
  • 1 Life in the trees
  • 2 Problems of life in the trees
  • 2 Problems of life in the trees
  • 2.1 The consequences of living in the trees
  • 2.2 The kinkajou
  • 2.3 The colugo
  • 2.4 Fruit bats and flying foxes
  • 2.5 Tree squirrels
  • 3 Introducing the primates
  • 3 Introducing the primates
  • 4 Galagos, lorises and pottos
  • 4 Galagos, lorises and pottos
  • 5 Lemurs and their origin
  • 5 Lemurs and their origin
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Madagascan diversity
  • 5.3 Sportive lemurs
  • 5.4 Indris and sifakas
  • 5.5 Ring-tailed lemurs
  • 5.6 Aye-ayes
  • 6 Reflection
  • 6 Reflection
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements

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