-
biologist Jonathan Kingdon proposed that they
instead be
called "
sengis" (singular
sengi), a term
derived from the
Bantu languages of Africa, and in 1998...
-
habitat loss.
Chequered sengis will mate for life. The pair of them will
defend a
territory of a few acres. The
chequered sengis is
primarily an insectivore...
-
traces of a
checkerboard pattern seen on
giant sengis like the
checkered elephant shrew. The golden-rumped
sengi are
monogamous and
territorial behavior is...
- (2012). Steinke, Dirk (ed.). "Phylogeny and
Taxonomy of the Round-Eared
Sengis or Elephant-Shrews,
Genus Macroscelides (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Macroscelidea)"...
- The Stuhlmann's
sengi or white-tailed
sengi (Rhynchocyon stuhlmanni) is a
species of
elephant shrew that
lives in the
forests and
savannas of Africa....
- The
black and
rufous sengi (Rhynchocyon petersi), the
black and
rufous elephant shrew, or the Zanj
elephant shrew is one of the 17
species of elephant...
-
genus of
elephant shrew (or
sengi) in the
family Macroscelididae.
Members of this
genus are
known colloquially as
giant sengis. They are a ground-dwelling...
- with a
light brown belly and tail. In
comparison to the
other sengis, the grey-faced
sengi is
larger in
proportion and the
upper tooth row is longer. The...
- (2020). "New
records of a lost
species and a
geographic range expansion for
sengis in the Horn of Africa". PeerJ. 8: e9652. doi:10.7717/peerj.9652. PMC 7441985...
- 2018.1483759. PMC 7799720. PMID 33474305.
Petra Wester, "Sticky
snack for
sengis: The Cape rock elephant-shrew,
Elephantulus edwardii (Macroscelidea), as...
