Elephant shrew

The elephant shrew is neither an elephant nor a shrew. It can run up to 18 miles per hour.

Elephant Shrew. Photo by Logan Weavind.

Elephant Shrew

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Elephant Shrews are small mammals that only eat insects and are native to Africa. Elephant Shrews resemble rodents or opossums and have scaly tails, elongated snouts are relatively long legs for their size. These long legs are used to move in a hopping fashion much like rabbits. Elephant Shrews have been, in the past, classified with shrews and hedgehogs and lumped in with hares and rabbits. However, new evidence shows that the Elephant Shrew is related to mammals such as golden moles…

The black and rufous elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon petersi), or the black and rufous sengi, is one of the 17 species of elephant shrew found only in Africa.

Elephant Shrew

Elephant shrew

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Elephant shrew

They're tiny but they're mighty!

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Rufous elephant shrew born the previous night.

Also called sengis, elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than to true shrews. Their name comes from their long, flexible, highly sensitive snouts. Of the 17 living species of elephant shrews, the short-eared elephant shrew is the smallest.

The Four-toed elephant shrew or four-toed sengi, is a species of elephant shrew in the Macroscelididae family. This species is only found in particular regions in Africa and is smaller in size compared to its relatives. A comprehensive recording of this species is lacking. The four-toed elephant shrew is located in Central and Southern East Africa, notably in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Namibia...

Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew • A weird little creature from Kenya. Check out our Kenya tours on our website, linked on our home page. Photo…