Studying mammals: Life in the trees

David Attenborough looks at life in the trees: examining how species have evolved to cope with arboreal living. In this free course, Studying mammals: Life in the trees, you will learn how lemurs, anteaters, bears and many others have developed different methods to help movement and survival.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Life in the trees
• 1 Life in the trees
• 2 Problems of life in the trees
• 2 Problems of life in the trees
• 2.1 The consequences of living in the trees
• 2.2 The kinkajou
• 2.3 The colugo
• 2.4 Fruit bats and flying foxes
• 2.5 Tree squirrels
• 3 Introducing the primates
• 3 Introducing the primates
• 4 Galagos, lorises and pottos
• 4 Galagos, lorises and pottos
• 5 Lemurs and their origin
• 5 Lemurs and their origin
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Madagascan diversity
• 5.3 Sportive lemurs
• 5.4 Indris and sifakas
• 5.5 Ring-tailed lemurs
• 5.6 Aye-ayes
• 6 Reflection
• 6 Reflection
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements