May 31, 2011

Your Tuesday Ugdorable


I visited some old zoo friends this past weekend and met a new species they've acquired: this is a black and rufous elephant shrew. I'd worked a bit with the short-eared elephant shrew, but as you can see, it is not nearly as elephantine:


I'd rather work with either than a real elephant though. Those guys can kill you. With these the worst risk is probably that'd you laugh yourself silly.

-Wombat (No Relation)


Photos from Wikimedia Commons.

2 comments:

Alexander Wang said...

That color elephant shrew looks interesting,this is the longest nose shrew I've ever seen.

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Looks so cute.