Studying mammals: Life in the trees

Course 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.