How To Use Tenrec In A Sentence
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The male tenrec has no scrotum, instead retaining its testes inside its abdomen.
The Song of The Dodo
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The tenrec family belongs to the order Insectivora—nominally the insect eaters, though not every species confines its diet to true insects such as crickets and termites.
The Song of The Dodo
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Other near endemic mammal species living at the middle to upper reaches of eastern mountains include the rice tenrec (Oryzorictes tetradactylus), found only in the south central highlands, highland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes nigriceps), several shrew-tenrecs (e.g. Microgale gracilis, M. gymnorhyncha, and M. monticola), and a species of tuft-tailed rat (Eliurus majori).
Madagascar ericoid thickets
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Near-endemics include the large-eared tenrec (Geogale aurita), the lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi), and Coquerel's dwarf lemur (Mirza coquerli).
Madagascar succulent woodlands
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Insectivora has been restricted to the Lipotyphla (shrews, solenodons, moles, hedgehogs, tenrecs and golden moles).
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Afrotheria is a newly recognized taxon comprising elephants, hyraxes, sea cows, aardvarks, golden moles, tenrecs, and elephant shrews.
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Others, like the web-footed tenrec, sport adaptations for aquatic life and hunt crustaceans and insect larvae under water.
Smithsonian
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The Insectivora are sometimes considered to be among the most primitive mammals surviving today, and the tenrecs to be the most primitive of the Insectivora.
The Song of The Dodo
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Near-endemic mammals include the large-eared tenrec (Geogale aurita), and the lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi).
Madagascar spiny thickets
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As Jonathan Martin reports, Newt is playing that game too with the help of some friends from the Des Moines zoo: a baby American alligator, a hedgehog tenrec, a barred owl, a leopard gecko and a bunny.
Happy Hour Roundup
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He shows me tenrecs in cardboard boxes, housed there temporarily while he cobbles together still more terraria.
The Song of The Dodo
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The dental formula of tenrecs varies considerably among species, reflecting the diversity of the group.
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Somewhere between these two groups stands a missing link, a species called Cryptogale australis—in English, “the secretive southern tenrec.”
The Song of The Dodo
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As Jonathan Martin reports, Newt is playing that game too with the help of some friends from the Des Moines zoo: a baby American alligator, a hedgehog tenrec, a barred owl, a leopard gecko and a bunny. print share
Happy Hour Roundup
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Small, spiny, pointy-nosed creatures known as tenrecs are the equivalents of shrews, moles and hedgehogs.
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The insectivorous tenrec Tenrec ecaudatus, introduced to the Seychelles from Madagascar, also occurs.
Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve, Seychelles
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Even comprehensive analyses have not clarified phylogenetic relationships among aardvarks, tenrecs, golden moles, and elephant shrews.
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Kerns, 25, talked about his life as a zookeeper, and as he spoke he held in his hands a tiny tenrec named Pandora.
An interview with a zookeeper from the National Zoo
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The main species threatened by hunting are the tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus), fruit bats (Pteropus rufus and Eidolon helvum), and the red-fronted brown lemur.
Madagascar succulent woodlands
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Among mammals, the carnivores, primates, and tenrecs all have fairly well-established African connections.
