at Rot Fai Park in Bangkok, where they are very common, running all over the place like squirrels! This must surely be one of the easiest places to see this species in the wild.
at Rot Fai Park in Bangkok, where they are very common, running all over the place like squirrels! This must surely be one of the easiest places to see this species in the wild.
oh they're not really difficult. They are pretty common and they are active by day. Mostly they live in forest though with all the difficulties that entails. At these parks in Bangkok in contrast they are just running about in the open. They aren't bold but they're not too shy either.
There are quite a lot of species around southeast Asia, most of which are fairly easy to spot if you're in the right places.
I just checked my mammal lists and I have seen eight species of tree-shrews in the wild. According to Wikipedia there are nineteen species total.
The ones I've seen:
Smooth-tailed tree shrew Dendrogale melanura
Common (greater) tree shrew Tupaia glis
Bornean tree shrew Tupaia longipes
Northern tree shrew Tupaia belangeri
Large tree shrew Tupaia tana
Lesser tree shrew Tupaia minor
Horsfield's tree shrew Tupaia javanica
Mountain tree shrew Tupaia montana
Only a decade ago there were four species being kept in European collections - Tupaia belangeri, T.glis, T.tana and T.minor, with Anathana ellioti having also been kept until the 1980's. T.tana especially was kept in substantial numbers in the UK until about 4 years ago.
But now, the only species kept in Europe whatsoever is T. belangeri. A shame, but there you go.
There are ~7 tree shrews in Australia (none in NZ, won't last much longer in Australia either ). There is some confusion about what species they are however, they were always thought to be T. glis, but apparently look more like T. belangeri.
There are ~7 tree shrews in Australia (none in NZ, won't last much longer in Australia either ). There is some confusion about what species they are however, they were always thought to be T. glis, but apparently look more like T. belangeri.
