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Tenrec Resources and Information - English
URL: http://www.planet-interkom.de/david.kupitz/

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Articles, pictures, and other information about the tenrecs from Madagascar and their maintenance and breeding in captivity.

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

Tenrec publications, pictures, information and links.

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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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