Diet
The mountain treeshrew eats fruit, seeds, and leaves, and will sit back on its haunches to eat, holding the food in both forepaws, like a squirrel or gerbil. It also eats insects.
It has a mutualistic relationship with giant pitcher plants such as Nepenthes lowii, Nepenthes macrophylla, and Nepenthes rajah; the treeshrews defecate into the plants' traps while visiting them to feed on sweet, fruity secretions from glands on the pitcher lids.
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