CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The National Zoo's Small Mammal House is home to two baby black and rufous giant elephant-shrews—also known as sengis. Newborn elephant-shrews ...

For more than 50 years, the mouse-size Somali sengi was thought to be a lost species. Turns out, it wasn't. Researchers recently spotted the Somali sengi, a kind of elephant shrew, not in Somalia — ...

A pair of rare Elephant Shrews have arrived at their new home in Hertfordshire Zoo. The Black and Rufous Sengi, also known as Elephant Shrew, is a small mammal native to the forests and shrublands of ...

Scientists working in the Horn of Africa have documented the existence of a remarkable little mammal called the Somali elephant shrew -- or Somali sengi -- for the first time since the 1970s.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. From tigers to elephant-shrews to parrots to goats, it’s a wild day in ...

Barely known and never seen, elephant shrews baffle even the zoologists. With their stilt-like legs and long mobile trunk, joined to the body of a large shrew with a golden bottom, they certainly ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Jackson said the species and its forest habitat should be celebrated and protected. [Courtesy] Scientists have ...

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Zoo is always an adventure with so many animals to see. This spring the Zoo welcomed some new faces, including a baby white-handed gibbon named Aeros. Aeros is ...

Why am I always disappointed by the elephant shrew? In Michael Chritons Jurassic Park (book not movie) John Hammond ran around proving his ability to manipulate genetic material by showing investors a ...