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June 11, 2005

More on Elephant Shrews

Filed under: Elephant Shrews, Vertebrates, Mammals - afarensis @ 1:03 am

Elephant Shrew

From Elephant-Shrews

Many biologists currently include the elephant-shrews in a new superorder, the Afrotheria, which encompasses several other distinctive African orders. These include elephants, sea cows, and hyraxes (the Paenungulata); and the aardvark, elephant-shrews, golden-moles, and tenrecs …

Interesting Facts:
1) Shrews range in size from the pygmy shrew-the smallest mammal in the world, it can pass through a worm hole-to the giant elephant shrews of East Africa.
2) This shrew is a swift runner and with its long hind legs can make leaps of almost 3 feet. Its keen senses of sight, hearing and smell alert it quickly to danger.

Interesting Links:

African Wildlife Foundation

Elephant -Shrew Movies

BBC - Science and Nature

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