Rhynchocyon

• Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew Rhynchocyon chrysopygus

  

  The golden-rumped elephant shrew searches the ground for small prey with its long snout and lives along Kenya’s coast.

• Checkered Elephant Shrew Rhynchocyon cirnei

  

  This large sengi has a checkered back and a long, mobile snout. It is active by day and searches on the ground for ants, termites and other invertebrates.

• Black-and-rufous sengi Rhynchocyon petersi

  

  This small mammal probes leaf litter with its long snout and eats insects. Its reddish and black fur and white eye-rings are striking.

• Gray-faced Sengi Rhynchocyon udzungwensis

  

  This large sengi is recorded in two forest blocks in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. Its face is grizzled gray, and it lives in moist evergreen montane forest. It makes ground nests lined with leaves.

• White-tailed Sengi Rhynchocyon stuhlmanni

  Rhynchocyon stuhlmanni is an elephant-shrew relative of Congo Basin forests. The 2018 handbook account places it in northern DR Congo and Uganda and describes it as active on the forest floor by day.

• Black-and-rufous sengi Rhynchocyon petersi

  

  This small mammal probes leaf litter with its long snout and eats insects. Its reddish and black fur and white eye-rings are striking.

• Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew Rhynchocyon chrysopygus

  The golden-rumped elephant shrew searches the ground for small prey with its long snout and lives along Kenya’s coast.

• Checkered Elephant Shrew Rhynchocyon cirnei

  This large sengi has a checkered back and a long, mobile snout. It is active by day and searches on the ground for ants, termites and other invertebrates.

• Gray-faced Sengi Rhynchocyon udzungwensis

  This large sengi is recorded in two forest blocks in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. Its face is grizzled gray, and it lives in moist evergreen montane forest. It makes ground nests lined with leaves.