Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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If all crustaceans “want” to look like crabs, then tenrecs “want” to look like basically any other small mammal. These weird little guys are endemic to Madagascar – they’re native to nowhere else on Earth.

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Sources:
afrotheria.net/tenrecs
britannica.com/animal/tenrec-mammal-family
academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/65/5/890/2223622?login=false
animaldiversity.org/accounts/Tenrecidae
britannica.com/list/the-largest-islands-in-the-world
britannica.com/place/Madagascar
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jbi.14348
https://anthropology.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Dewar%20and%20Richard%202012.pdf
animaldiversity.org/accounts/Limnogale_mergulus
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16243759
nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-weird-world-of-tenrecs.html
news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9392000/9392070.stm
bioone.org/journals/zoological-science/volume-27/issue-5/zsj.27.427/A-Quill-Vibrating-Mechanism-for-a-Sounding-Apparatus-in-the/10.2108/zsj.27.427.full

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youtube.com/watch?v=d0WD7VAPbFg
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inaturalist.org/observations/36533
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vimeo.com/499155834?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=126978965
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youtube.com/watch?v=UevnAq1MTVA
cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/review-of-the-status-and-conservation-of-tenrecs-mammalia-afrotheria-tenrecidae/4A715369BFEFA954A1948FB3D589E27D
oryxthejournal.org/blog/what-are-tenrecs-and-why-should-we-care-about-their-conservation
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gettyimages.com/detail/video/mole-getting-out-of-its-hole-stock-footage/150574241
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gettyimages.com/detail/photo/mole-on-molehill-in-lawn-royalty-free-image/173503291?phrase=mole%20animal
gettyimages.com/detail/video/video-of-crickets-chirping-stock-footage/1405618414
inaturalist.org/observations/102806704
flickr.com/photos/36803481@N06/27333109251
youtube.com/watch?v=ShjQkj9STa8