Large Treeshrew (Tupaia tana), family Tupaiidae, Borneo

photograph by Chien Lee Wildlife Photography

Tupaia. From The First Mammals, written/illustrated by William E. Scheele. 1955.

Female Long-footed Tree Shrews sometimes form consortships with one another as well; these typically last longer than heterosexual consortships (several months as opposed to several hours) and involve grooming, lying on or next to each other, and sleeping together.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

Large treeshrew (Tupaia tana) By: Pat Morris From: The Complete Encyclopedia of the Animal World 1980

Common treeshrew

Tupaia glis

Family Tupaiidae, order Scandentia, grandorder Euarchonta, superorder Euarchontoglires

Another tree shrew! This time, one of the more well known ones. It’s one of the larger tree shrews, at an average of 16-21 cm body length and 12-20 cm tail length. The average weight is 190 grams.

They are diurnal and have territories which they frequently mark with scent glands in the chest and scrotum. Territories of males and females will often overlap, while male and male or female and female territories overlap far less often. Territories of two adults with high overlap are thought to be indicative of a stable pair. Juveniles’ territories are thought to overlap with family members until they are grown.

The history of this animal’s classification is very interesting. They were first thought to be in Sorex, with shrews. Their current classification is still not entirely certain.

Because of their close relationship to primates and developed senses of vision and hearing, these guys are used by researchers as animal models for human disease.

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Book 50: Sea People

The random number generator created 99X (I forgot to put in the last number and can't remember what it was) which is History and Geography > Oceania and elsewhere. Two interesting books were available: Selkirk's Island about a real life Robinson Crusoe, or Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia. I went with Christina Thompson's Sea People.

Sea People explores the history of Polynesia and the mystery of how humans populated a triangle of ocean stretching from New Zealand to Hawaii to Easter Island with some islands thousands of miles from each other. It goes through the "discovery" of the islands by Europeans, the first written accounts of their history, through Polynesian oral traditions, scientific attempts to decipher the origins, attempts to recreate sailing to the islands, and finally modern science's input.

Yes, the Royal Society makes an appearance, in that they needed somewhere to study the Transit of Venus near the equator in 1769 and just as a ship returned telling of a wonderful island called Tahiti. There they were able to talk with the natives and learn a bit about them. Most importantly they met a learned man named Tupaia who agreed to go with them on their voyage home where they encountered other groups of islands like New Zealand where he was of immense help translating and advising on proper behavior. Most intriguingly he made a map of all the islands he had heard of, and it remains a mystery to this day how to interpret it. It's not strictly a Cartesian coordinate map and many people have tried to explain how the islands are arranged.

The book mentions Maui and his amazing fish hook, and a guy who humped a pile of sand to make humans (best origin story yet). Funnily enough, the best, most learned scholars of the 19th century thought that Polynesians were Aryan in origin. That's real Iranian Aryans- not phony baloney blonde Nazi Aryans. However science of the early 20th century tried to go by "race" for the origin by measuring facial features and using, I swear to god, a skin color chart like that Family Guy terrorist meme. Obviously that failed for so many reasons. Currents to Polynesia generally run East to West so a lot of people, including Thor Heyerdahl thought the people must have come from South America. Unfortunately for them, computer models show that Kon-Tiki only made it to Polynesia because it was towed out to a good current, and that natural rafts would not have made it that way. In fact it showed it was nearly impossible to drift to Hawaii or New Zealand and that meant the Polynesians who settled there must have been heading in a general direction of exploration to get there.

Spoiler alert modern DNA shows that Polynesians came from Taiwan via Melanesia to Polynesia though they're still working out the details of how long they stayed in Melanesia and when they settled various islands. And they're perfecting interesting techniques like looking at the rat DNA of the ubiquitous stow-aways from Polynesian settlement.

BEST LINE: "From the perspective of the twenty-first century , a lot of this work looks creepy, and for good reason."

SHOULD YOU READ THIS BOOK:

I wish it had some maps of Polynesia and Melanesia and Micronesia so I could have had a better idea of keeping those straight, so look that up on wikipedia before you read, unless you already know, in which case kudos! But I do suggest reading the book. It's very interesting from a historical and science history perspective.

ART PROJECT:

The 20th century investigators took a lot of photographs of Polynesian natives and this is a drawing of one of them.

I think most people are aware of the fact that humans are related to other primates such as chimps, gorillas, mandrills and probably even Curious George. As a matter of fact, humans ARE primates, which means we share a common ancestor with all other primates. The order Primate includes many species other than just humans and animals that we usually call "monkeys", it also includes lemurs and some other minor families.

However, what I was curious to know was what animals are the most closely related to humans after the primates. To find out, we need to go up the ranks in our phylogenetic tree. As seen on the image on top, primates are part of the mirorder (like an order, but bigger) Primatomorpha, which includes the order Dermoptera (yes, Greek nerds, this means something along the lines of "wing skin"). The order Dermoptera consists entirely of colugos, which are also known as flying lemurs. Despite their name, they are not lemurs and despite their appearance, they are not flying squirrels. They just happen to also be equipped with a patagium (the skin membrane they use to glide) due to convergent evolution. While this is surely interesting, colugos are quite obscure animals and I was looking for a group of animals that would be more "commonly known", even if a bit less related to humans.

We can go even higher up in our phylogenetic tree and see that Primatomorpha are part of the grandorder (like a mirorder, but even bigger) Euarchonta and have a sister order, Scandentia. Animals in the order Scandentia are referred to as "tree shrews", but again, the name is misleading because while they are indeed arboreal, they are not shrews. The image above has one example of these creatures, a tupaia, and while they are cute and all, they are still not what I would call a "commonly known animal". Also, note that the position of the order Scandentia in the evolutionary tree is actually debatable as some researchers place them as a sister clade* to the Glires.

Going one more rank up in our phylogenetic tree, we see that Euarchonta are part of the superorder (like a grandorder, but bigger, you get the idea) Euarchontoglires, which includes the clade Glires. Within this clade are found the orders Lagomorpha and Rodentia, which are both comprised of very well known animals, such as rabbits and rats. I think it's pretty cool to think that those animals are quite closely related to primates, and therefore, to humans. Probably this is why they are (sadly) used for animal testing of medicine and cosmetics, although they are also probably used because of economical reasons.

* I will one day make a post about this word, it's actually pretty interesting.

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Le Gris, couleur de la Neutralité et de la Maturité, véritable régulateur optique, référence de la Sobriété et du Raffinement, d’Élégance et d’Imperturbabilité, de la Lassitude et de la Maîtrise de Soi, représentant le Sérieux, le Futur et la Modernité, coloris du Métal, du Mercure et lié à la Lune et aux Orages, sera notre « couleur » de ce matin.

À mi chemin entre le Noir, trop drastique, et le Blanc, trop harmonieux, le Gris est par excellence la couleur de la Neutralité. Tout comme ses origines, il n’est pas, lui aussi, considéré comme une « couleur », au sens strict du terme. Sa neutralité fait qu’il n’a aucun effet psychologique sur l’être humain. En fait il serait plutôt une « intensité lumineuse » puisqu’il harmonise toutes les couleurs auquel il est mélangé ou associé (d’où la notion d’Équilibre qu’on lui attribue). Il est cependant possible de créer du Gris à partir d’autres couleurs, et on peut lui trouver différentes teintes tel que le Gris Perle, l’Argentée ou le Gris Anthracite.

Sobre et Élégant, il est la teinte que l’on retrouvera le plus dans le Vestimentaire. Habits, Accessoires, Chaussures, Teinture…tout est bon à porter avec le Gris, qui mettra en avant les couleurs qui lui seront ajoutées. C’est la seule « couleur » qui sied à tout le monde.

Son Harmonie naturelle fera de lui une « valeur sûre », que ce soit dans le domaine du Design, de la Décoration d’intérieur, en passant par la Mode, ou encore l’Art.

La Lune, appelée aussi la Dame d’Argent, l’Acier ou encore l’Ennui sont parmi les nombreuses références que l’on assigne au Gris, mais j’ai personnellement préféré attribuer à Hautea Tupaia, votre candidat #10, les caractéristiques du fulminant Dieu « 𝐹𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑖 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑢ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑢 𝑖 𝑡𝑒 𝑟𝑎’𝑖 », dieu tahitien des Orages et Ouragans, et Souverain de la Foudre.

N’oubliez pas de voter pour Hautea Tupaia, dixième candidat à l’élection « 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑇𝑎ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑖 », le 07 Octobre 2023, et de vous arborer de Gris, dans les jardins de la Mairie de 𝑃𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑒.

#mistertahiti2023 #hauteatupaia #candidat10 #gris #kaleisillustrations #polynesiefrancaise

Random Real Thoroughbred: MAIESKI

MAIESKI is a horse born in Brazil in 1988. By ZIRBO out of TUPAIA. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/maieski

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Horsfield's Treeshrew Skull (Tupaia javanica)

Busulfan-Induced Respiratory Injury in Kid Oncology Patients-Review from the Materials with the Illustrative Case.

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Tupaia, Longhouse and Canoes in Tahiti (1769) and Maori trading a crayfish with Joseph Banks (1769)

Jo Storr, Detail from Tupaia's Paintbox - Barter (2005)

Image Citation: "A Māori man and Joseph Banks exchanging a crayfish for a piece of cloth", drawing by Tupaia, c. 1769 (British Library) Photo: Public domain. Also on Nile & Clerk 1996

"The sanctified universe of obligation — that circle of people with reciprocal obligations to protect each other whose bonds arose from their relation to a deity or a sacred source of authority" (Wynter, "No Humans Involved," 44)

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