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.
Overview
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
