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Round-eared sengi (Macroscelides proboscideus), family Macroscelididae (elephant shrews/sengis)

Dierenpark Zie-ZOO, taken June 2025

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Short-eared Elephant Shrew Macroscelides proboscideus Source: Here

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Round-eared elephant shrew / Round-eared sengi (Macroscelides proboscideus), family Macroscelidae (elephant shrews)

Dierenpark Zie-ZOO, taken in October 2024 (first two photos) and January 2025 (rest)

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Round-Eared Elephant Shrew Macroscelides proboscideus Source: Here

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Round-eared Sengi - Macroscelides proboscideus

Scientifically named Macroscelides proboscideus (Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae), this cute animal is commonly referred to as Round-eared Sengi, and Round-eared Elephant-Shrew. It only lives in desert and semi-desert areas of Namibia, southern Botswana, and South Africa.

The sengis or elephant-shrews (order Macroscelidea) are small mammals characterized by long slender tails, long slender legs, and a long, narrow, semi-flexible snout from which the name derives. They are a monophyletic clade restricted to Africa with distant phylogenetic affinities to elephants, sea cows, hyraxes, aardvarks, golden moles, and tenrecs, which collectively belong to the super cohort Afrotheria.

A monophyletic clade is a group of organisms with a common ancestral species that are typically characterized by shared derived characteristics or synapomorphies.

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Photo credits: ©Regina | Locality: captive, Wilhelma Zoo, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (2014) | [Top] - [Bottom]