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Madagascar Tenrec's - English
URL: http://members.tripod.com/HeVol/t_index.html

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Biology, images and captive care of Streaked Tenrecs.

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Hemicentetes semispinosus (Streaked Tenrec) - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/hemicentetes/h._semispinosus$narr

Animal Diversity Web species account for the streaked tenrec, with brief information about range, characteristics and natural history, by Nancy Shefferly.

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Setifer setosus (Madagascar Hedgehog): Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/setifer/s._setosus$narrative.html

Knowledge of the foraging habits of this species in the wild is limited. These creatures have been seen eating carrion and foraging in garbage dumps.

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Microgale soricoides - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/microgale/m._soricoides$narrative

Anatomical images of teeth and skull of Microgale soricoides, from Animal Diversity Web.

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Microgale dobsoni (Dobson's Shrew Tenrec): Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/microgale/m._dobsoni$narrative.ht

Microgale dobsoni is insectivorous. In captivity, it readily eats insects, earthworms and raw ground meat. In the wild, it probably subsists on a diet of insects supplemented with ant eggs.

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Tenrec ecaudatus (Common Tenrec): Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/tenrec/t._ecaudatus$narrative.htm

Tenrec ecaudatus is omnivorous and eats some vegetation, fruit, reptiles, amphibians, and small mammals in addition to its main diet of invertebrates. This insectivore probes fissures in rocks and logs with its snout and detects prey with long, sensitive whiskers.

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Echinops telfairi, Small Madagascar Hedgehog Tenrec - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/echinops/e._telfairi$narrative.ht

Article about the biology of this tenrec, by Bridget Fahey for Animal Diversity Web.

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Birmingham Zoo - The Zoo Story - English
URL: http://www.birminghamzoo.com/story/past/jan/012400.html

New Home for the 17-year-old Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec female "Pancake" including pictures and three videos on this old lady, probably the oldest Echinops telfairi in the world!

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Tenrec Resources and Information - English
URL: http://www.tenrec.org/

Tenrec publications, pictures, information and links.

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Tenrec - Utah's Hogle Zoo - English
URL: http://www.hoglezoo.org/mammals/tenrec.htm

While active at night, the tenrec is not strictly nocturnal. In the daytime it rests under a log or in a hollow tree. The tenrec is usually solitary except for a mother with her young.

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National Zoo Small Madagascar Hedgehog-Tenrec - English
URL: http://natzoo.si.edu/zooview/exhibits/smmam/tour/htenrec.htm

The National Zoo Small Mammal House pages give you a virtual tour of our small mammal facility. You can learn more about our small primates, rodents and littel furry creatures.

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Tenrecidae Family - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/insectivora/tenrecidae.h

Members of this remarkable family do not have a wide geographic distribution. They are most numerous and diverse on the island of Madagascar, but a few species are also found in western central Africa.

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Tenrecs, or Madagascar "Hedgehogs" - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/insectivora.tenrecidae.html

This family of 10 Recent genera and 23 species is found in western and central equatorial Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands. There are three subfamilies: the Potamogalinae, with the genera Potamogale and Micropotamogale, the Oryzorictinae, with the genera Geogale, Oryzorictes, Microgale, and Limnogale, and the Tenrecinae, with the genera Tenrec, Setifer, Hemicentetes, and Echinops.

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