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- Animal Diversity Web - Family Tenrecidae Information on this species provided by the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, U.S.
- Animal Diversity Web - Tenrecidae
- Animal Planet - Tenrec
- Natural History Collections of the University of Edinburgh - Tenrecidae
- Oakland Zoo - Tenrec
Britannica Web Sites
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- tenrec - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
Tenrec, or tanrec, are any of 29 varied species of mammals constituting family Tenrecidae, order Insectivora; all (except otter shrew) confined natively to Madagascar and Comoros Islands; typically round-bodied, big-headed animals with pointed faces and very wide mouths when opened; forage chiefly at night, looking for earthworms, insects, and mollusks, which they root up with their flexible snouts; several species spend dry season asleep in burrows; most fecund of insectivores; types include rice tenrec, common tenrec, Madagascar hedgehog, and web-footed tenrec.