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Mountain treeshrew

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The mountain treeshrew is dark grizzled rufous above with an indistinct black line along the back. Its tail is rather short and grizzled rufous above, but below more olivaceous yellow with a black tip. The lateral tail hairs are ringed. The head and body length measures 15–33 cm and the tail
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Results of a behavioral study of a group of 12 wild-caught captive mountain treeshrews indicate that they are more social than groups of other treeshrew species. Two males tended to dominate the group. Females had an
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In their natural habitat, mountain treeshrews were observed being active during the day. They forage on the ground among fallen logs and branches where they feed mostly on
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lasted 49 to 51 days. They did not display a distinct reproductive season. Litters comprised one to two young.
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Trap geometry in three giant montane pitcher plant species from Borneo is a function of tree shrew body size
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and was part of a zoological collection from northern Borneo obtained by the
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Greenwood, M., Clarke, C., Lee, C.C., Gunsalam, A., Clarke, R. H. (2011).
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collected the first specimen at about 4,000 ft (1,200 m) on
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A unique resource mutualism between the giant Bornean pitcher plant,
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The social and reproductive behavior of Tupaia montana in captivity
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Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference
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The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 (9): 250–254.
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A Naturalist's Guide to the Mammals of Southeast Asia
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On some new Mammalia from the East-Indian Archipelago
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It is 150:Family: 134:Mammalia 124:Chordata 120:Phylum: 114:Animalia 100:Domain: 60:IUCN 3.1 1205:1035795 1179:1000552 1114:2436299 1023:Q774635 929:T. tana 812:T. glis 650:Phylum 628:Extant 258:Sarawak 246:endemic 236:) is a 160:Genus: 140:Order: 130:Class: 75: ( 58: ( 1244:234218 1231:513235 1153:573225 1101:327856 1075:796293 747:Tupaia 656:Class 507:  412:  402:  354:, and 250:Borneo 205:, 1892 203:Thomas 165:Tupaia 1218:88146 1166:41498 1135:IRMNG 1127:46285 1088:59LYM 1062:31951 388:. 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Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
CITES
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Scandentia
Tupaiidae
Tupaia
Binomial name
Thomas

treeshrew
Tupaiidae
endemic
Borneo
montane forests
Sarawak
Sabah
Kalimantan
Indonesia
Oldfield Thomas
British Museum of Natural History
Charles Hose

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