"like a hedgehog crossed with a shrew, crossed with fury. . . They are very angry little things." While they use their spines mostly for defense, what's super cool about lowland streaked tenrecs ...

Yet their striking resemblance to shrews and other spiny mammals is not ... Image by Jo Avery. A tenrec mother emerges from her underground burrow in search of food. Working daily with our local ...

Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants ... sea cows, hyraxes, aardvark, tenrecs and golden-moles (the super-cohort Afrotheria)," according to the KWS.