Sengis (Elephant-Shrews)

Golden-rumped sengi
Rhynchocyon chrysopygus
Anteater-like nose is used to search for prey
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Golden-rumped sengi
Rhynchocyon chrysopygus
Weight = 550 g.
Gedi Ruins, Kenya
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Black and Rufous Sengi
Rhynchocyon petersi
Weight = 520 g
Captive from Tanzania at the Philadelphia Zoo, July 2002
Photo: Heidi Hellmuth, Philadelphia Zoo

Black and Rufous Sengi
Rhynchocyon petersi
Captive mother and young foraging, July 2002
Photo: Heidi Hellmuth, Philadelphia Zoo

Black and Rufous Sengi
Rhynchocyon petersi
Minja Forest Reserve, North Pare Mountains, Tanzania. 28 July 2006
Photo: Bill Stanley

Checkered Sengi
Rhynchocyon cirnei (camera trap image)
Burigi Game Reserve, Kagera, Tanzania. June 2007
Photo: Charles Foley, Tanzania Mammal Atlas Project

Checkered Sengi
Rhynchocyon cirnei (camera trap of likely estrus female followed by male)
Burigi Game Reserve, Kagera, Tanzania.  June 2007
Photo: Charles Foley, Tanzania Mammal Atlas Project

Checkered Sengi
Rhynchocyon cirnei
Mareja Community Reserve, Pemba, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique.16 June 2011.
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Checkered Sengi
Rhynchocyon cirnei
Weight: 400 g
Casa Rossa Lodge, Zomba, Malawi
Photo: Sylvia & Mark Grilli

Gray-faced Sengi
Rhynchocyon udzungwensis
Weight = 710 g
19 March 2006, Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania
Photo: Francesco Rovero

Gray-faced Sengi
Rhynchocyon udzungwensis
Weight = 710 g
19 March 2006, Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania
Photo: Francesco Rovero

Gray-faced Sengi
Rhynchocyon udzungwensis
Weight = 710 g
23 March 2006, Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Four-toed Sengi
Petrodromus tetradactylus
Weight = 200g
Coastal forest, Kenya
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Four-toed Sengi
Petrodromus tetradactylus
Weight: 150g
Thangadzi River Conservancy, Kaombe Ranch, lower Shire Valley, Malawi
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Karoo round-eared sengi
Macroscelides proboscideus
Weight = 45g
Zwartmodder Farm, Maltahohe District, Namibia
Photo: Jack Dumbacher, California Academy of Sciences

Namib round-eared sengi
Macroscelides flavicaudatus
Weight = 35g
Wlotzkasbaken, Swakopmund, Namibia
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Etendeka round-eared sengi
Macroscelides micus
Weight = 25 g
Awahab Outliers of Etendeka Mountains, Huab River basin, Namibia
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Short-snouted sengi
Elephantulus brachyrhynchus
Weight: 50 g.
Mankwe Wildlife Reserve, Northwest Province, South Africa
Photo: Richard Yarnell

Short-snouted sengi
Elephantulus brachyrhynchus
Weight: 45 g.
Zambezi Province (Caprivi Strip), Namibia
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Cape rock sengi
Elephantulus edwardii
Weight = 50 g.
Traveller’s Rest, Clanwilliam, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Dusky Sengi
Elephantulus fuscus
Weight: 45 g
Thangadzi River Conservancy, Kaombe Ranch, lower Shire Valley, Malawi
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Karoo rock sengi
Elephantulus pilicaudus
Weight = 50 g.
Loxton, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Bushveld sengi
Elephantulus intufi
Weight = 40g.
Zwartmodder Farm, Maltahohe District, Namibia
Photo: Jack Dumbacher

Bushveld sengi
Elephantulus intufi
Weight = 40g.
Windpoort Farm, Outjo, Namibia
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Eastern Rock sengi
Elephantulus myurus
Weight = 50 g.
Matopos National Park, Zimbabwe, August 1982
Photo: Tim Osborne

Eastern Rock sengi
Elephantulus myurus
Weight = 50 g.
Weenen Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
Photo: David Ribble

North African sengi
Petrosaltator rozeti
Weight: 50 g
Midlet, Morocco
Photo: G. Rathbun

Rufous sengi
Elephantulus rufescens
Weight = 50g
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Rufous sengi
Elephantulus rufescens
Mother and young resting on trail through leaf litter.
Kibwezi, Kenya
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Rufous sengi
Elephantulus rufescens
Neonate - one day old.
Photo: Gene Maliniak, National Zoological Park

Western Rock sengi
Elephantulus rupestris
Weight = 50 g.
Rehoboth, Namibia
Photo: Galen B. Rathbun

Western Rock sengi
Elephantulus rupestris
Weight = 50 g.
NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namibia
Photo: Jack Dumbacher

Western rock sengi
Elephantulus rupestris
Weight = 50 g.
Captive eating a grasshopper.
Photo: Chris and Tilde Stuart