Free Photo: Short-eared Elephant Shrew at the Leipzig Zoo, Germany

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A short-eared Elephant Shrew looks over it's domain at the Leipzig Zoo.

While not endangered in the wild, short-eared elephant shrews are often kept by zoos because they are one of the most attractive mammalian species of their size and because - representing a mammalian order of their own - they are of considerable educational interest.

Short-eared elephant-shrews are kept in desert terrarium-type enclosures. The larger the enclosure, the better, especially when the animals are kept in pairs. If kept singly, the minimum ground surface should be at least 0.5 m². The floor should be covered with sand with a grain size of 1 mm, or more coarse substrates like gravel, chips of wood or chips, but then the animals should be offered a plate with fine sand (chinchilla sand) for sand bathing. Sand for bathing must be clean and dry and should be changed regularly. The enclosure should be furnished with roots, stones, branches and pieces of bark are useful. It is not necessary to offer hay or similar material, because the animals do not build nests. What never should be missed in an enclosure for short-eared elephant-shrews is a heat source, for example an infrared bulb. (source: WAZA http://www.waza.org/virtualzoo/factsheet.php?id=103-008-002-001&view=Bats%20and%20Insectivores)


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