Latin Name |
Tupaia dorsalis |
Conservation Status |
Data Deficient |
Location
| Indonesia & Malaysia |
Colour |
- |
Length |
- |
Tail |
- |
Weight |
- |
Life Expectancy |
- |
Main Characteristics
Striped Tree Shrews have a slender build and a long tail. They have well developed senses of hearing, smell and vision.
Habitat
Striped Tree Shrews are found in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Diet
Striped Tree Shrews feed on fruits and insects.
Breeding
After a gestation period of approximately 50 days, a litter of 3 - 4 young are born. 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
There are no subspecies of the Striped Tree Shrew.
Interesting Facts
Tree Shrews have the highest brain to body mass ratio of any animal, even higher than humans.
Tupaia comes from the Malay word "tupai" which means squirrel.
The main threat to Striped Tree Shrews is habitat loss.
Similar Animals
Slender Tree Shrew
Common Tree Shrew
Mountain Tree Shrew
Northern Tree Shrew
Calamian Tree Shrew
Mindanao Tree Shrew
Northern Smooth-Tailed Tree Shrew
Bornean Smooth-Tailed Tree Shrew
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