Cloaca What are cloaca? The cloaca is the rear orifice in an organism that serves as the only opening for digestive, reproductive, and urinary tracts. The cloaca is most commonly observed in amphibians, reptiles, and birds. Very few mammals possess …
Hedgehogs and tenrecs may look like siblings as they share the characteristics of sharp quills, soft underbellies and pointed snouts, but they’re not even related! Hedgehogs and tenrecs are a perfect illustration of convergent evolution: a process whereby two entirely …
Tenrec owners and especially first time owners often wonder how they can sex their tenrec as they do not have regular genitals to detemine their sexes. In this article we provide a few options to help the matter, because there …
Weird, wonderfull and true! The Lowland-Streaked Tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) is the only mammal with sounding quills. They are one of Madagascar’s fascinating animals that inhabits the islands tropical lowland forest areas. Their black and yellow colours colours make you think …
Tenrecs, much like other mammals, have a skin covered in hairs and sometimes quills. But did you know there’s another form of fur that isn’t described as often? During our microscopic study into the structure and pigments in hairs and …
A new species page has been added to our wiki! Within the Tenrecidae family, the subfamily of the Geogalinae and the genus of Geogale, the page of the Large-eared tenrec or Geogale aurita has been added. Including a picture of …
International scientists have concluded that it would take three million years to recover the number of species that went extinct from human activity on Madagascar. A new study published in Nature Communications projects that if currant species that are threatened …
When you think of tenrecs, you most likely can only think of 5 species. But those five are only the tenrecs within the subfamily of ‘true tenrecs’, while there are 3 subfamilies of tenrecs within the family of Tenrecidae. And …