SPECIES IDENTIFICATION: What am I?

Hint: I’m definitely not a rodent. Therefore, I’m not from the order Rodentia.

Image by Buck Denton.

6 thoughts on “SPECIES IDENTIFICATION: What am I?

  1. Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus)?

  2. I see where you are going with this Electric Mayhem (great screen name). Good guess, but try again. Here are two more hints, (1) this little guy isn’t from the family Soricidae (shrews), and (2) it’s a termite specialist.

  3. I’m not confident about this next guess: some type of bandicoot (?)

  4. You are getting colder, so I am afraid it is not a bandicoot, but you are correct not to have confidence in your hunch. Bandicoots are marsupials, and these little mammals are not marsupials. Another hint: There are two “forms” that matter here (because of location) – one form has spines or quills and the other is more shrew-like and lacks spines.

  5. Last guess – a tenrec.

  6. You got it! It’s a large-eared tenrec (Geogale aurita).

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