Hedgehogs and tenrecs may look like siblings as they share the characteristics of sharp quills, soft underbellies and pointed snouts,
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03Jun
Methods for sexing tenrecs
Tenrec owners and especially first time owners often wonder how they can sex their tenrec as they do not have
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06Mar
The sound of quills!
Weird, wonderfull and true! The Lowland-Streaked Tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) is the only mammal with sounding quills. They are one of
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02Mar
Quills, hairs and.. quiars?
Tenrecs, much like other mammals, have a skin covered in hairs and sometimes quills. But did you know there’s another
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01Mar
Large-eared tenrec added to the Wiki
A new species page has been added to our wiki! Within the Tenrecidae family, the subfamily of the Geogalinae and
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18Feb
Madagascar’s mammalian evolution under threat
International scientists have concluded that it would take three million years to recover the number of species that went extinct
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14Feb
Tenrec species
When you think of tenrecs, you most likely can only think of 5 species. But those five are only the
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