Elephant Shrews Have Been Rediscovered in Africa After Disappearing for 50 Years
As you can probably tell, this animal looks pretty strange. Yes, they are adorable and even endearing in their own way. At first sight, it seems kind of like a mouse. But there’s also this tiny trunk-like nose that resembles an elephant’s. Some of the Somali sengi’s closest living relatives are the aardvark, elephant, and manatee. To find the creatures, an expert scientific team set over 1,000 traps at 12 separate locations, carroting the traps with a concoction of peanut butter and oatmeal. They caught one elephant shrew in the first trap they set in Djibouti’s dry, rocky landscape.
In total, they found 12 sengis during their expedition, and they managed to obtain the first-ever images and videos of living Somali elephant shrews for research. They did not detect any direct threats in the species’ habitat, which is inaccessible and far away from any human developments.
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