The Elephant Shrew Is Always On The Go

What looks like a mouse with a twitchy nose of an elephant and the speed of a race car? Meet the Sengis:

This is the Sengis - otherwise known as the Elephant Shrew - for obvious reasons once you see its startling and always twictching proboscis.

This animal has such a high metabloic rate that it is always hungry. So it creates for itself an amazing serious of paths networked to give it full access to its terrritory. It also gives it some natural escape routes from the lizards that prey upon it.

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