- Checkered Elephant Shrew
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Checkered Elephant Shrew[1] 
Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Macroscelidea Family: Macroscelididae Genus: Rhynchocyon Species: R. cirnei Binomial name Rhynchocyon cirnei
Peters, 1847
Checkered Elephant Shrew range The Checkered Elephant Shrew or Checkered Sengi (Rhynchocyon cirnei) is a species of elephant shrew in the Macroscelididae family.
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Range and habitat
It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and possibly Central African Republic. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.[2]
Behavior
Checkered Elephant shrews will mate for life. The pair of them will defend a territory of a few acres.
Diet
The Checkered elephant shrew is primarily an insectivore, eating termites, ants, beetles and centipedes. It also will eat mollusks, eggs and small mammals, amphibians and birds.
References
- ^ Schlitter, Duane A. (16 November 2005). Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 84. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.
- ^ a b Rathbun, G. B. (2008). Rhynchocyon cirnei. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 December 2008.
External links
- Checkered Elephant shrew on Animal diversity web
Extant Macroscelidea (Elephant shrews) species Kingdom Animalia · Phylum Chordata · Class Mammalia · Infraclass Eutheria · Superorder Afrotheria Elephantulus Short-snouted Elephant Shrew (E. brachyrhynchus) · Cape Elephant Shrew (E. edwardii) · Dusky-footed Elephant Shrew (E. fuscipes) · Dusky Elephant Shrew (E. fuscus) · Bushveld Elephant Shrew (E. intufi) · Eastern Rock Elephant Shrew (E. myurus) · Karoo Rock Elephant Shrew (Elephantulus pilicaudus) · Somali Elephant Shrew (E. revoili) · North African Elephant Shrew (E. rozeti) · Rufous Elephant Shrew (E. rufescens) · Western Rock Elephant Shrew (E. rupestris)Macroscelides Petrodromus Rhynchocyon Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew (R. chrysopygus) · Checkered Elephant Shrew (R. cirnei) · Black and Rufous Elephant Shrew (R. petersi) · Grey-faced Sengi (R. udzungwensis)Category 
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