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Photo of the Day #369: Tree shrew
Category: Mammals • Photography
Posted on: October 13, 2008 8:07 AM, by Brian Switek
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Awww... looks like a Lesser Tree Shrew (Tupaia minor) to me.
Posted by: Mo Hassan | October 13, 2008 1:44 PM
I first saw these in the Children's Zoo within the Saint Louis Zoo -- I thought they were cute and neat, and wanted one for a pet.
Posted by: Stevo Darkly | October 13, 2008 2:40 PM
They've had an interesting career. Once they were primates, then they weren't, now they are. In the future they may become primatiformes much as purgatorious did.
Posted by: Alan Kellogg | October 14, 2008 4:23 AM