East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the genus Tupaia.
Defn: A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole.
Defn: Any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the family Tupaiidæ, somewhat resembling squirrels in size and arboreal habits.
Fowkes insectivores include the hedge-hog-like Nyctitherium, Talpavus, and Scenopagus.
Insectivores from the Fowkes Formation are abundant and varied.
These mammals had somewhat insectivore-like teeth, and may have bridged the gap between insectivores and archaic hoofed mammals.
In some respects Hyopsodus was similar to both insectivores and primates and was at one time or another regarded as belonging to either of these two orders.
Ancestral rodents and tiny insectivores lived a furtive existence in the brush and mold that carpeted the forest floor, or else they sought a livelihood among the branches of trees.
The insectivores are represented by Diacodon, a small mammal known only from fragmentary material.
The feeding habits of these early insectivores were probably similar to those of contemporary insectivore species (moles and shrews); however, there is some evidence to suggest many of these small creatures may have been semi-arboreal.
East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the genus Tupaia.
A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole.
The Insectivores also developed some of the present types at an early date, and have since proved so unprogressive that some regard them as the stock from which all the placental mammals have arisen.
This has happened among rodents in the case of the mice and field-voles, among insectivores in the case of the shrews, and among Australian marsupials in the case of the pouched kangaroo-mice.
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