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About the Four-toed Elephant Shrew
A small, long-nosed insectivore with slender legs, large ears and a long tail. The Four-toed Elephant Shrew inhabits woodland, savanna and dense undergrowth, where it forages along established paths for insects and other small invertebrates. It is generally solitary or occurs in pairs and relies on speed and agility to escape predators.
How to identify the Four-toed Elephant Shrew
Small, long-legged mammal with a distinctive elongated trunk-like snout, large ears, relatively large eyes, and a long tail. The coat is typically brownish or greyish above with paler underparts. It has four toes on each foot and moves rapidly through leaf litter and low vegetation.
Did you know?
The Four-toed Elephant Shrew is not a true shrew or elephant relative; elephant shrews belong to the Afrotherian group and are more closely related to elephants, aardvarks, and hyraxes than to true shrews.
Also known as: Viertoon-olifantskeerbek, Four-toed Sengi
Parks where you can see the Four-toed Elephant Shrew
Recent Four-toed Elephant Shrew sightings
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