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Nick Baker, unless otherwise stated

 EcologyAsia 2010
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There are around 5500 mammal species in the world, with at least 1000 species occurring in Southeast Asia.  Many of the region's mammal species are forest-dependant, which makes them difficult to study, particularly bats which are especially diverse.  Larger mammals such as Tiger, Asian Elephant and Orang Utan are well known to the general public, but the region also has some very curious species little known even in the countries they inhabit. These include the insect-eating Pangolin, covered in reptilian-like scales, and the Colugo which can glide from tree to tree by extending its broad gliding membrane.

The region also supports a complex diversity of smaller mammals including civets, tarsiers, squirrels, forest rats and treeshrews, some of which are illustrated here.  Bats are presented separately.
 

Order : Primates
       
Long-tailed Macaque
 
  Pig-tailed Macaque
 
  Proboscis Monkey
 
  White-thighed Surili
 
Thomas's Leaf Monkey
  
       
Silvered Leaf Monkey
  
  Spectacled Leaf Monkey
 
  White-handed Gibbon 
 
  Orang Utan 
 
  Slow Loris 
 
               
Spectral Tarsier
 
               
Order : Pholidota Order : Proboscidea          
             
Sunda Pangolin
 
  Asian Elephant
 
           
Order : Artiodactyla
           
Wild Pig
 
  Lesser Mousedeer
 
  Sambar
 
       
Order : Carnivora       Order : Dermoptera      
           
Smooth Otter
 
  Common Palm Civet
 
  Colugo or Flying Lemur
 
       
Order : Rodentia                
       
Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
 
  Annandale's Rat
 
  Polynesian Rat
 
  Asian House Rat
 
  Malaysian Wood Rat
 
       
Shrew-faced Ground Squirrel
 
Black Giant Squirrel
 
  Large Black Flying Squirrel
 
Grey-bellied Squirrel
 
  Mountain Red-bellied Squirrel 
       
Variable Squirrel
 
  Black-banded Squirrel
 
  Plantain Squirrel
 
  Horse-tailed Squirrel
 
  Low's Squirrel
 
             
Slender Squirrel
 
  Himalayan Striped Squirrel
 
         
Order : Insectivora   Order : Scandentia            
             
House Shrew
 
  Common Tree Shrew
 
           
Order : Cetacea                
             
Humpback Whale
    
  Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin