# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- identify the common features shown by tree-dwelling mammals from different groups
- show an awareness of the difficulties of classifying primates, especially in relation to the position of the prosimians
- give an account of opportunities and challenges encountered by tree-dwelling mammals and of evolved adaptations linked with arboreal life
- provide examples of the closeness (and sometimes interdependence) of the relationship between tree dwellers and their habitat
- show an awareness of differences in lifestyle and forms of locomotion amongst a wide range of prosimians.

OpenLearn - Studying mammals: Life in the trees
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