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Did you know? The unique elephant #shrew has the body of a mouse melded with the nose of an elephant. It’s an African #mammal that lives life at full speed, plucking prey from crevices in leaves, roots and soil. It hunts along a network of narrow, cleared paths through the undergrowth, which it also uses to escape predators. The shrew carefully maintains and memorizes these routes, because its life depends on them! Unlike other shrews, the elephant shrew is not venomous; instead, it relies on sp