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	Elephant shrew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One species, the North African Elephant Shrew, remains in the semi-arid, mountainous country in the far north-west of the continent.
		At various stages, they have been classified with the shrews and hedgehogs as part of the Insectivora; regarded as distant relatives of the ungulates; grouped with the treeshrews; and lumped in with the hares and rabbits in Lagomorpha.
		Although the dentition of elephant shrews suggests that they might be ungulates their overall morphology has similaritites to the gnawing mammals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elephant_shrew (495 words)

	Elephant shrew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Elephant shrews come out in the day and use their long tongues to scoop up insects and bring them to their mouth, much as an elephant uses his trunk to scoop food.
		Otherwise, the habitat of the elephant shrew is shrinking due to human encroachment.
		Elephant shrews are extremely territorial and become irate when another shrew approaches them on their own territory.
	www.robstewartphotography.com /facts/Elephantshrew.asp?i_id=472 (362 words)

	Digimorph - Macroscelides proboscideus (Short-eared elephant shrew)
		Elephant shrews are small mammals (head and body length: 95-315 mm) characterized by long slender tails (length: 80-265 mm), long slender legs, and a long, narrow, semi-flexible snout from which the name derives (Nowak, 1991).
		The short-eared elephant shrew is native to Namibia, Cape Province of South Africa, and southern Botswana (Corbet and Hanks, 1968; Nowak, 1991).
		Macroscelides proboscideus is a smallish elephant shrew (head and body length: 104-115 mm; tail length: 115-130 mm) with long pelage that is light gray-brown on the dorsum, yellow-brown on the flanks, and white on the ventrum (Corbet and Hanks, 1968).
	www.digimorph.org /specimens/macroscelides_proboscideus/whole (546 words)

	Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew, Rhynchocyon chrysopygus, is the largest of all the unique African family, the elephant shrews.
		The Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew lives on the forest floor of evergreen forests, rooting through the leaf litter for 80% of the waking day looking for grasshoppers, beetles, spiders and other small invertebrates.
		The Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew is considered vulnerable because of its highly restricted range (it is endemic to one forest); it is also hunted for food and by feral dogs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golden-rumped_Elephant_Shrew (405 words)

	African Wildlife Foundation: Wildlives
		Elephant shrews also present somewhat of a classification problem as some scientists feel they are more closely related to tree shrews (classified as primates) than they are to other shrews.
		Four types of giant elephant shrews are found in East Africa and are mainly distinguished by their distinct color patterns; some have contrasting patches of color and others have bold white spots and fl stripes.
		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.
	www.awf.org /wildlives/72 (857 words)

	Comparative Placentation
		A comprehensive symposium on elephant shrews was edited by Perrin (1995); it comprises many important aspects of their biology.
		This is the largest elephant shrew and remarkable because of the long, movable snout and long legs (the reason for the name Macroscelidea).
		The elephant shrews have a long duplex uterus in which the blastocyst implants mesometrially and superficially.
	medicine.ucsd.edu /CPA/elepshrew.htm (2508 words)

	Elephant's Trunk - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Elephant Shrew, family of small mammals characterized by an elongated, flexible snout that is similar to an elephant’s trunk.
		An elephant's nose and upper lip are combined in a long, limber trunk, an exceptionally supple appendage with an estimated 150,000 muscles.
		Elephant Man, The (motion picture), dramatization of the life of Joseph Carey Merrick, a 19th-century man who suffered from terrible physical...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Elephant's+Trunk (142 words)

	Elephant Miscellany
		Elephants are hunted for the few pounds of ivory that their tusks provide for rings and tourist trinkets sold in the shops of Brazzaville.
		A flint-headed spear lay by the remains, whence it is conjectured that the creature was killed by the British in a fight with the Romans.
		Elephant trees are large shrubs or relatively small trees, characterised by their thick, swollen trunks which serve for water storage.
	www.elephantcountryweb.com /ellies8.html (6433 words)

	African Wildlife Foundation: Wildlives
		Elephants are generally gregarious and form small family groups consisting of an older matriarch and three or four offspring, along with their young.
		Elephants are very attentive mothers, and because most elephant behavior has to be learned, they keep their offspring with them for many years.
		Elephants seem to be fascinated with the tusks and bones of dead elephants, fondling and examining them.
	www.awf.org /wildlives/71 (1571 words)

	Serengeti - Elephant Shrew and Buffalo Weaver
		Like many shrews, they eat insects, and depending on the species will find them on the top of fallen leaves and grass, or by flipping over leaves to find what is underneath.
		Elephant shrews find their food during the day and are vulnerable to birds of prey and snakes as a result.
		To protect themselves, elephant shrews maintain a small territory which they defend from all other shrews of the same sex, and they learn that territory very well.
	www.serengeti.org /littlefive_shrew.html (392 words)

	Elephant Shrew - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Elephant Shrew, common name for 15 species of small, shrew-like, insectivorous mammals that are found only in Africa.
		The shrew family is the largest among the insectivores, and numerous species are found on all major land areas of the world except the polar regions,...
		Elephant, largest living land mammal, which during the Pleistocene Epoch (1.6 million to 10,000 years ago; Quaternary Period) roamed every land mass...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Elephant_Shrew.html (115 words)

	Elephant shrew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Elephant shrews live in a variety of habitats throughout Africa, including semi-deserts, savannahs and coastal rainforests.
		Elephant shrews are active during the day and use their long tongue to scoop up insects and bring them to their mouth, much as an elephant uses its trunk to scoop food.
		When elephant shrews feel threatened, they slap their tail repeatedly on the forest ground.
	www.wildinfo.com /facts/Elephantshrew.asp (454 words)

	The Elephant Sanctuary, Hohenwald, Tennessee
		Three zoos have discontinued their elephant exhibits over the past year, and this fall the Philadelphia Zoo decided to put on hold plans to build a new and larger elephant habitat.
		The elephant issue has come to the fore as zoos in Detroit, Chicago and San Francisco have discontinued their elephant exhibits in the past year.
		"Elephants are an attraction, that is true, but the way we treat elephants in captivity has got to change," said Richard Farinato, who runs the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch, a sanctuary mostly for injured or abused large animals, in Murchison, Tex., outside of Dallas, for the Humane Society of the United States.
	www.elephants.com /media/WashingtonPost_12_28_05.htm (1190 words)

	Giant Elephant Shrew
		The giant elephant shrew is over twice as large as its North African cousin, measuring 9.5" to 12.5" not counting the tail, and weighing in at 2.8 to 4.2 oz.
		Behavior: This is the largest of the elephant shrews, living in shady areas with leaf litter, in which it resembles a small anteater using its long nose and scratching with its feet to locate ants, termites, and other small creatures.
		Often living in pairs or small groups, giant elephant shrews are active during the day and occasionally at night, squeaking constantly to keep in touch with the others, and rapping their tails when alarmed.
	www.americazoo.com /goto/index/mammals/42.htm (355 words)

	Small Mammals: Black and Rufous Giant Elephant-Shrew - National Zoo\| FONZ
		This name derives from the Greek and means long legs, while the elephant part of their common name is a reference to these small mammals’ long, mobile noses.
		Elephants and sea cows expanded far out of Africa, and tenrecs reached Madagascar, but hyraxes, elephant-shrews, and golden-moles all stayed put.
		In the early 1980s, Fred Koontz studied rufous elephant shrews in the Zoo’s collection to earn his Ph.D. He wanted to understand the messages contained in the odors produced by a large gland on their chest called the sternal gland.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /animals/smallmammals/fact-elephantshrew.cfm (1387 words)

	Cape Elephant Shrew
		They are the only elephant shrew out of the seven species within South Africa to be endemic.
		Elephant shrews came about their name due to their long prehensile noses.
		Shrews in general vary in size between 10 to 30 cms.
	www.africanfauna.com /capeelephantshrew.php (256 words)

	North African Elephant Shrew
		Description: This elephant shrew is a small, mouse-like insect eater with a long tail, long hind limbs a sharply pointed snout, and large ears.
		Not including the tail, the elephant shrew grows to about 3.5" to 5" and weighs between 1 and 2 oz.
		Although the elephant shrews resemble the mouse kangaroos with their long hind legs, they actually walk on all four, and hop only when running.
	www.americazoo.com /goto/index/mammals/41.htm (303 words)

	IUCN/SSC - ITSES: Insectivore, Tree Shrew & Elephant Shrew Specialist Group
		The Insectivore, Tree Shrew and Elephant Shrew Specialist Group (ITSES) was recently split into the Insectivore Specialist Group (ISG) and the Afrotheria Specialist Group, the latter which is chaired by G.
		Rathbun, and, among other mammal groups, took over the Tenrecidae (tenrecs), Chrysochloridae (golden moles) and Macroscelididae (elephant shrews).
		The ISG remains in charge of shrews (Sorocidae), hedgehogs (Erinaceidae), moles, desmans and shrew moles (Talpidae), solenodons (Solenondontidae) and tupaias (Scandentia).
	members.vienna.at /shrew/itses.html (826 words)

	Out of Africa, something shrew (Elephant News)
		Afrotheria - the theory, based on molecular evidence, that a superorder of mammals from aardvarks to elephants had its origins in Africa - could be in trouble before most people have learned to spell it.
		One of the groups embraced within the Afrotheria concept is macroscelideans, or elephant shrews.
		Analysis of North American fossils, suggests that the elephant shrews are quite closely related to early American hoofed mammals known as hypsodontids.
	www.elephant-news.com /preview.php?id=385 (1078 words)

	Western Rock Elephant Shrew
		The Western Rock Elephant Shrew (also known as the Western Rock Sengi or Smith's Rock Elephant Shrew) weigh approximately 50 grams.
		The name came about by a resemblance of their long prehensile noses to the trunk of an elephant.
		This species is not in fact a shrew, which is why they are also known as the Western Rock Sengi.
	www.africanfauna.com /westernrockelephantshrew.php (232 words)

	elephant shrew
		Elephant shrews are very active during the day, and very seldom seen in the wild.
		They are well camoflaged and make a series of cleared pathways throught the undergrowth and spend their days patrolling them for insect life.
		Note however that other species of elephant shrew are listed as endangered.
	www.shaldonwildlifetrust.org.uk /who/mammals/who1_8.asp (104 words)

	Short-eared elephant-shrews
		It is covered with short white hairs and carries the nostrils on the top, which are surrounded by a fl and wet skin area (rhinarium).
		Further characteristics are the ears, which have - in comparison to other elephant shrews - a round shape and therefore seem to be shorter.
		The enlarged bullae of the skull indicate that acoustic orientation is important for elephant-shrews.
	members.aon.at /ruesselspringer/introduction.htm (726 words)

	Elephant-Shrews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Since then, there has been an increasing realization that they are not closely related to any other group of living mammals, resulting in biologists mistakenly associating them with ungulates, primates, and rabbits.
		These include elephants, sea cows, and hyraxes (the Paenungulata); and the aardvark, elephant-shrews, golden-moles, and tenrecs (Murphy et al.
		The common name "sengi" is being used in place of elephant-shrew by many biologists to try and disassociate the Macroscelidea from the true shrews (family Soricidae) in the order Insectivora.
	www.calacademy.org /research/bmammals/eshrews/synopsis.html (1344 words)

	The Elephant in the Room, U.S. Zoos Struggle With Question of Keeping Pachyderms in Captivity (Elephant News)
		I look at them as the representatives for species in the wild." Three zoos have discontinued their elephant exhibits over the past year, and this fall the Philadelphia Zoo decided to put on hold plans to build a new and larger elephant habitat.
		"We make sure our elephants get exercise, but three, four, five miles is plenty, we feel." He said the Sedgwick Zoo in Wichita is building a 3 1/2 -acre elephant habitat and plans to acquire as many as four more elephants in the coming years.
		"I know if the elephants go, it will be sad, but we will have the new big-cat exhibit and many other things to attract people." Elephants, though, are both an attraction and a sentimental thing for Reed.
	www.elephant-news.com /preview.php?id=753 (2044 words)

	Macroscelidea Skulls
		They are mostly diurnal except in the hot weather, when they use the night's cool temperature to avoid the heat of the day.
		The diet of the Elephant Shrews mostly consist of ants and termites, but they will eat beatles and other large insects.
		Elephant Shrew's main predators are large carnivorous Birds such as Hawks.
	www.skullsunlimited.com /macroscelidea.htm (191 words)

	Elephant-shrew (Macroscelides proboscideus), picture & info
		Somehow the small elephant-shrews remind us of shrews, as indicated by their English name.
		But nowadays it is known that elephant shrews form a very old order of mammals themselves.
		The Short-eared elephant shrew is one of 15 species of this order.
	magazine.naturspot.de /text/elephant-shrew.html (411 words)

	Shrew Information
		"Shrews are small, superficially mouse-like mammals of the family Soricidae".
		Although their external appearance is generally that of a mouse with a long nose, the shrews are not rodents and not closely related: the shrew family is part of the order Insectivora.
		Lot of information about Shrew; has a picture gallery where you can find pictures for all the shrew species Read More
	www.junglewalk.com /info/shrew-information.htm (123 words)

	The Shrew (ist's) Site
		This web site aims to not only become a place for zoologists specialized in the biology of shrews (Soricidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) but also a scholarly forum, to provide public awareness of shrews, furnish enjoyable "shrewdness" and to serve an educational purpose.
		The pages are composed of numerous contributions by a great number of people that thought it worthwhile to share their experience, scientific records and illustrations.
		A great deal of shrew research is 'disguised' and hidden in general publications on small mammals.
	members.chello.at /natura/shrew/index.html (409 words)

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