Tree kangaroos are found only in the rain forests of Australia, West Papua, and Papua New Guinea. Six of ten species are found in Papua New Guinea, in some of the last undisturbed rain forest ...
Whilst researching the potential stories for the Mammals Heat episode we came across a newly described behaviour about white sifaka lemurs in Madagascar hugging tree trunks to keep cool!
2: Marine Mammals and Smaller Terrestrial Mammals ... In Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews. ed. Luckett , W. P. (New York: Plenum Press ,1980) 133-169.
They reveal that mammal ancestors evolved to glide between trees in a similar way to some mammals today. This adds to evidence that mammals were more diverse during the age of dinosaurs than ...