| Latin Name |
Dendrogale murina |
| Conservation Status |
Least Concern |
| Location
| S E Asia |
| Colour |
- |
| Length |
- |
| Tail |
- |
| Weight |
- |
| Life Expectancy |
- |
Main Characteristics
Northern Smooth-Tailed Tree Shrews have a slender build and a long tail. They have well developed senses of hearing, smell and vision.
Habitat
Northern Smooth-Tailed Tree Shrews can be found in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Diet
Northern Smooth-Tailed Tree Shrews are omnivores and they feed on a variety of insects, small vertebrates, fruit and seeds.
Breeding
After a gestation period of approximately 50 days, a litter of 3 - 4 young are born in a nest. At birth the young are blind and hairless, but they are able to leave the nest when they are a month old.
Tree Shrews reach sexual maturity at around 4 months old and they generally breed throughout the year with no defined breeding season.
Subspecies
Subspecies of the Northern Smooth-Tailed Tree Shrew include:
Dendrogale murina murina
Dendrogale murina frenata
Interesting Facts
Tree Shrews have the highest brain to body mass ratio of any animal, even higher than humans.
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