Oh my God, the big devil Duduke has a long nose.
Let me digress first. The two characters for "shrew" are pronounced qú jīng. In fact, these two characters are ancient Chinese that cannot be more ancient, and they are the same as "pear and garlic". "It's basically the same era ~ Classical Chinese generally means the same word. I checked the information. "Shrew" means small mouse, and "shrew" means beneficial rat. However, shrew is not a mouse.
I'm going too far. I introduced Qian before. The pen-tailed tree shrew, who is not drunk, today talks about a kind of elephant shrew with a long small nose ~ it got this name because they have a long trunk like an elephant, but... here is the story: the latest DNA comparison, elephant shrew and shrew The shrew actually has nothing to do with it. The real close relative of the elephant shrew is the proboscis elephant!
Most of the elephant shrews have cute faces, but the most adorable among the elephant shrews is the [Macroscelides sp] from Namibia, South Africa. They are much smaller than the average large elephant shrew, which weighs about 500 grams, and their body length is about 100 grams. to 20cm, weighing less than 30g, but although sparrows are small and well-equipped with all five internal organs, they are not only relatives of elephants, but also belong to the African beasts together with hyrax, aardvark , manatees and elephants.
Compared with other elephant shrews, giant bubble elephant shrews have a wider range of food habits. In addition to eating insects, they can also twist their little noses to dig up roots and buds to eat ~
However, the little guy’s habitat is suffering Destruction, I hope they can continue to happily dig for food in the sand
#魔 Monster Calendar# 2022.06.27 Giant Bubble Elephant Shrew
