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Tenrec Links
(please mail to tenrecsite-3 (at) yahoo.de to suggest additional sites)

Last updated: June 13, 2005

• http://www.genomia.cz/de/test/bodlin/
• http://www.calacademy.org/research/bmammals/afrotheria/ASG.html (Afrotheria Specialist Group of the IUCN/SSC)
• http://www.a-t.dk/thomas/echinopstelfairi.htm (Echinops telfairi, in Danish, with 19 MB video)
• http://www.baerendatenbank.de/Tenrek/tenrek.html (pictures of Tenrec ecaudatus on the Seychelles)
• http://igeltanrek.ig.funpic.de/ (Echinops telfairi, in German)
• http://www.ig-kleinsaeuger.de/include.php?path=content/articles.php&contentid=38 (captive care of Echinops telfairi, in German)
• http://members.aol.com/andreaswosch/AnimalLand/Tanrek.htm (Echinops telfairi, in German)
• http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/comemeetmyfamily/tenrecs.html (pictures of Tenrec ecaudatus)
• http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/comemeetmyfamily/tenrecs2.html (pictures of Setifer setosus)
• http://www.geocities.com/efexotics/lesserhedgehogtenrec.html (captive care of Echinops telfairi)
• http://www.geocities.com/efexotics/streakedtenrec.html (captive care of Hemicentetes semispinosus)
• http://www.lmu-neuroanatomie.de/neurosysteme.html (neurological research on Echinops telfairi, in German)
• http://www.schulzoo.de/archiv/foto.php?pfad=igeltanrek&e=16&j=1&deu=Kleiner+Igeltanrek&lat=Echinops+telfairi&autor= (photos of Echinops telfairi)
• http://www.tropic-animals.de/haltung/strtanrek.htm (captive care of Hemicentetes semispinosus, in German)
• http://www.koelle-zoo.de/special/ (Echinops telfairi, in German)
• http://www.schulzoo.de/berichte/tanrek1.php?seite=1 (Echinops telfairi, in German)
• http://www.schulzoo.de/berichte/tanrek.php (Setifer setosus, in German)
• http://www.schulzoo.de/bag/hefte/1998/1/3.php (systematics and captive care of insectivores, in German)
• http://www.mobot.org/gradstudents/olson/tenrec.jpg (picture of Echinops telfairi in a hollow Alluaudia tree in southeastern Madagascar)
• Echinops telfairi (Animal Diversity Web)
  text about Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec providing basic information about the species
• Tenrec evolution research project
  by an alumni of the University of Chicago, Link Olson, who tries to improve our knowledge about the evolutionary relationships of tenrecs. Very interesting text and a nice photo of a juvenile Echinops
• Echinops telfairi (Houston Zoo)
  text and picture of Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec
• Echinops telfairi (Santa Barbara Zoo)
  text and a picture of a Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec (probably male)
• Das Tierporträt: Großer Igeltanrek, Setifer setosus Frohriep, 1806
  by Klaus Rudloff of Tierpark Berlin (appeared in newsletter of the BAG Kleinsäuger)
• Echinops telfairi (Randers Regnskov Zoo)
  text (Danish) and picture of Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec showing the typical eye secretion when males are (mostly sexually) excited
• Echinops telfairi (Utah's Hogle Zoo, Salt Lake City)
  text and picture of Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec (click here for enlarged picture
• Hemicentetes semispinosus (Mary Simon)
  text and seven pictures of Streaked Tenrec and the author's experiences and observations of a group of five of them in captivity
• Tenrecs at Zoo To You
  Echinops telfairi (scroll down)
• Setifer setosus
• Tropikcenter
  (scroll down to see photo of Greater Hedgehog Tenrec and some Swedish text)
• National Zoo Small Madagascar Hedgehog Tenrec
  two good pictures (click on them to enlarge), but virtually no information
• Echinops telfairi in the Animals and Man Building at Topeka Zoo
  very good photo, little information
• Tenrec Inc. (web design company)
• African Mammals
  Tailless tenrec
  Streaked tenrec
  Lesser hedgehog tenrec

Photos / Pictures:

• Echinops telfairi
  two pictures of Lesser Hedgehog Tenrecs, incl. one of young in a nest
• Echinops telfairi (Potter Park Zoo, Lansing)
  picture of Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec held by zoo volunteer
• Hemicentetes semispinosus
  two pictures of Streaked Tenrec in captivity
• Tenrec ecaudatus
  picture of juvenile Tailless or Common Tenrecs (photographed in the wild)