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Type genus of the Tupaia chief genus of tree shrews
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Tupaia is a treeshrew genus in the family Tupaiidae that was first described by Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1821. The name of this genus derives from the Malay word tupai meaning squirrels or small animals that resemble squirrels.
Usage examples of tupaia.
The grovelling Mole and creeping Shrew are as unlike the sprightly Tupaia, as it springs from branch to branch, whisking its long bushy tail, as it is possible to conceive.
He mentions that on one expedition the famous Captain Cook had onboard a Tahitian named Tupaia who, apart from being the island chief, was also a navigator priest.
Cook was astounded at the detailed knowledge Tupaia had - without charts or instruments - of a vast area of the Pacific spanning roughly the size of the Atlantic from the U.
During a voyage to Hawaii, more than two thousand miles away, Tupaia always knew the direction in which his home island, Tahiti, lay.
Among several men whose early deaths are much to be lamented as a loss to scholarship, was Tupaia, a Tahitian priest and navigator who had joined the expedition as a refugee from the political disturbances of his homeland.