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Time: 10 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- This unit will introduce you to the wide-ranging types of mammals that live in the trees. You will learn how they thrive in this demanding environment, with the help of a range of intriguing adaptations...
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| | 1 Life in the trees: an introduction
- 1 Life in the trees: an introduction Resource
- As you work through this unit you will come across boxes, like this one, which give you advice about the study skills that you will be developing as you progress through the unit. To avoid breaking up...
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| | 2 Problems of life in the trees
- The consequences of living in the trees Resource
- This unit contains a lot of detailed information about particular tree-dwelling mammals. You will need to take care not to get too absorbed in the fine details but to ensure that you take away the important...
- 2.1 The kinkajou Resource
- LoM describes this tree dweller as a relative of the raccoon. It belongs to the order Carnivora and is one member of a family generally referred to as procyonids [p. 170], or more commonly the raccoon...
- 2.2 The colugo Resource
- In LoM, DA vividly describes one particular evolutionary development associated with tree dwelling – taking to the air [pp. 221–227]. The gliding habit evolved independently in different mammalian lineages...
- 2.3 Fruit bats and flying foxes Resource
- In this section and the next, you will be asked to write answers to activities in particular numbers of words – Activity 3 asks for about 200 words and Activity 5 requires 150 words – you might like to...
- 2.4 Tree squirrels Resource
- Coevolution also underpins the relationship between many tree squirrels and the trees that house them. The creation of food caches as a ‘winter-larder’ is mutually beneficial, partly because squirrels...
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| | 3 Introducing the primates
- 3 Introducing the primates Resource
- One group of accomplished tree dwellers are the primates – a term you perhaps think of as synonymous with monkeys and apes. Monkeys and some apes display some of the most striking adaptations to tree-living....
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| | 4 Galagos, lorises and pottos
- 4 Galagos, lorises and pottos Resource
- Activity 6 is divided into several parts, on successive pages, and asks you to answer a number of questions. Look ahead to this activity now and highlight, or list, the different ‘process’ words, which...
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| | 5 Lemurs and their origin
- 5.1 Introduction Resource
- The island of Madagascar is relatively small compared to the enormous landmasses of Africa, Asia and South America inhabited by the primates I've mentioned up to now. Yet of the 250 or so living primate...
- 5.2 Madagascan diversity Resource
- Watch the video sequence below, which focuses on just three lemur species – the ring-tailed (in a very brief sequence, leaping from one tree to another), the golden bamboo lemur, already mentioned, and...
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- 6 Reflection Resource
- Most of the activities that you have done so far are based on your understanding of single sections that you have just read. Activity 8 which follows, is different. It requires you to assemble and integrate...
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