Elephant shrews or jumping shrews are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa, belonging to the Macroscelididae family, in the order Macroscelidea.
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You may be mistaken for thinking that elephant shrews belong to the shrew family - they don't.
Elephant shrews are characterized by their long snouts and large set of eyes and ears. They are superbly adapted for jumping with hind limbs considerably longer than their front appendages.
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Like elephant shrews, tree shrews have often been considered a divergent family of Insectivora. They differ from members of that family, however, in possessing complete auditory bullae and zygomatic arches.
Macroscelidea - elephant shrews
There are 28 species of elephant shrews. They have long elephant-like snouts, long hind legs, big ears and eyes, and long tails. They are found in Africa. Their long hind legs make them very good jumpers.
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.
Order Macroscelidea (elephant shrews)
Order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates: horses, rhinos, tapirs)
Order Pholidota (the pangolin)
Order Primates (apes, monkeys, lemurs, people)
Order Proboscidea (elephants, mammoths, mastodonts, etc.) ...
It has therefore been recommended by the IUCN/SSC Insectivore, Tree Shrew and Elephant Shrew Specialist Group that its precise distribution and status needs to be determined (2). Such information can be used to inform future conservation measures.
Shrews being among the smallest of mammals ; some 2 and a half inches total length , to 6 and a half inches long . The shrewes saliva is poisonous and if injected into a mouse is fatal, and causes discomfort to humans. The African elephant shrews and ...
The closest living relatives to the aardvarks include elephants, hyraxes, dugongs, manatees, elephant shrews, golden moles and tenrecs. Together, these mammals form a group known as the "Afrotheria".
Nor is the aardvark closely related to the South American anteater, despite sharing some characteristics and a superficial resemblance. The closest living relatives of the aardvark are the elephant shrews, along with the sirenians, hyraxes, tenrecs, ...
As for the paenungulates, although they are no longer associated with the true ungulates, they DO have a strong evolutionary relationship with each other. These four orders, along with the the elephant shrews (Macroscelidea) and tenrecs and golden ...
 See also: Elephant, Shrew, Aardvark, Hyrax, Manatee
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