tree shrew in English

noun
1
a small squirrellike insectivorous mammal with a pointed snout, native to Southeast Asia, especially Borneo.
They proposed a monophyletic clade that includes primates, the tree shrew , the flying lemur, rabbit, and rodents.

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1. A tree-shrew [n -S] Medical Definition of Banxring

2. Results show that cloprostenol can be used to induce the estrus of Tree shrew and increase their reproductive rate effectively. Methods for superovulation of Tree Shrew were investigated.

3. The very first mammals were small insectivores, probably very similar to this modern tree shrew. Sentencedict.com

4. A 2009 study, which coined the term "tree shrew lavatories", determined between 57 and 100% of the plant's foliar nitrogen uptake comes from the faeces of tree shrews.

5. As nouns the difference between Banxring and tana is that Banxring is (label) an east indian insectivorous mammal of the genus tupaia while tana is the Banxring or tree shrew.

6. Animals: AARDVARK, ALPACA, AMADAVAT or Avadavat (Indian song bird), BLACK MAMBA (snake), CARACAL (lynx), CARACARA (vulture-like bird), MATAMATA (a turtle), HELLBENDER (salamander), LEVERET (young hare), TREECREEPER (bird), TREE SHREW, INDRIS (a lemurine animal), SISKIN (bird), KOODOO or COODOO (antelope), MOORCOCK (bird), POTOROO (kangaroo-rat), …

7. November 28, 2012 in Mammals, Trees, Uncategorized Tags: animals, arborial, babies, Banxring, closest, cute, mammal, primate, relative, Scandentia, tree, treeshrew Common Tree Shrew (Tupaia glis) According to contemporary taxonomy, the primates (whom I haven’t yet written about because they are so near and dear) are closely related to two