#Macroscelides proboscideus

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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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Saw these little fellas in the zoo of Leipzig and just wanted to hold them in my hand so bad.

Their international name is Macroscelides proboscideus, in English Round-Eared Elephant Shrew, and they are indeed more closely related to elephants than to shrews or rodents.

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may i please suggest the incredibly goofy short-eared elephant shrew. bro is basically a furry sphere with stick legs and a really long tail, aka Perfection

The ideal creature!

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Round-eared elephant shrew (Macroscelides proboscideus)

Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)

European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)

snout beast animals that look like this top contenders:

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Short-eared Elephant Shrew Macroscelides proboscideus Source: Here

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Round-eared elephant shrew (Macroscelides proboscideus)

sneef snorf?

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stuff i‘ve read the entire wikipedia article on at three am (mostly for writing):

Canalizations

Vlad the Impaler

Impaling (scarred me for life)

Chewing Gum

French Kings and Queens

The Mary Celeste

Black Museum (the episode from Black Mirror)

Tararre (also scarred me)

Monsieur Mangetout/Michel Lotito

Vampires

Street Lanterns

Jack the Ripper (also somewhat scarring)

A small town near where i live (kinda boring)

Ninjas

Manananggal

Steampunk

The Omen (1976)

Round-eared elephant shrews (Macroscelides proboscideus)

Arsenic

Mothman

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Round-eared Elephant Shrew Macroscelides Proboscideus © Crisisvisuals.com . . #animal #cape #animals #mouse #pet #cute #rare #shrew #sengi #karoo - from instagram

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Round-eared elephant shrew (Macroscelides proboscideus)

Seriously stop pretending

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Living Fossil: Elephant Shrew

Meet of the most adorable of all the Living Fossil species, the Elephant shrew, Macroscelides proboscideus, one of 15 species of this order. These small, quadrupedal, insectivorous mammals strongly resemble rodents or opossums with their scaly tails, elongated snouts, and rather longish legs. 

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Living Fossil: Elephant Shrew published first on https://triviaqaweb.weebly.com/

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Look at that nose!!! 😍 To get a photograph of these mammals is not easy at all... Round-eared Elephant Shrews inhabit the more arid regions of the South, Western and Northern Cape. They forage on insects as well as roots and tubers - and they have been documented feeding on fallen berries as well. They are solitary animals, believed to be monogamous. They live in burrows that they expropriate from other rodents, reuse or dig themselves. Macroscelides proboscideus, somewhere dry, Western Cape, South Africa. #canon #canonmacro #macro #ishootwithorms #bionerds #biodiversity #planning #surveys #support #ecoexploration #mammal #mammals #mammalsofinstagram #shrew #shrews #shrewsofinstagram #elephantshrew #Macroscelidesproboscideus #nature #wildlife #arid #cute #longnose (at South Africa)

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ちっちゃな毛玉が可愛すぎる！産まれたばかりのハネジネズミの赤ちゃん

アフリカの動物園で産まれたばかりの、ハネジネズミの一種、「round-eared elephant shrew（Macroscelides proboscideus）」の赤ちゃん。 産まれた赤ちゃんは双子で、ピンポン玉よりも小さいため、飼育員からはピンとポンと名付けられて可愛がられているそうな。 その英名が示すとおり、ゾウみたいに長い鼻をヒクヒク動かす様子が可愛い。 最初じっとしてるからわからなかったけど、赤ちゃんもやっぱり素早さすごいね。 【関連】捕食者のトカゲから猛スピードで逃げるハネジネズミ頭から手足と尻尾が生えたみたいな逆関節のネズミ　ピグミージェルボア（コミミトビネズミ）チェスター動物園で新しく産まれたハイラックスの赤ちゃんたちがことのほか可愛い生まれた瞬間デスゲーム開始。命がけでヘビたちから逃げる、赤ちゃんウミイグアナがドラマチックすぎる Source: 小太郎ぶろぐ

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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]

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Round-Eared Elephant Shrew Macroscelides proboscideus Source: Here

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Rufous elephant-shrew (Elephantulus rufescens)

Chequered elephant-shrew (Rhynchocyon cirnei)

Short-eared elephant shrew (Macroscelides proboscideus)

North African elephant-shrew (Elephantulus rozeti)

Four-toed elephant shrew (Petrodamus tetradactylus)

Black and rufous elephant-shrew (Rhynchocyon petersi)

Golden-rumped elephant-shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus)