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Macroscelides proboscideus

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behavior. Mate guarding is considered a predominant male trait in round-eared elephant shrews. This strategy is used to guard the female before and after heat to eliminate male competition, which makes male round-eared elephant shrews monogamous and more vulnerable to their surroundings as they spent
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Research was recently conducted to determine that elephant shrews are thought to have dichromatic color vision due to their ability to differentiate between blue/green colors and grey. However, there is no evidence to prove that the species can see red colors.
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Round-eared elephant shrews are omnivores with their diet mainly consisting of insects and supplemented with plants. During the winter, this species consumes less insects than they do during the summer due to a decrease in the insect population.
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Bernard, R. T. F., G. I. H. Kerley, T. Doubell and A. Davison 1996. Reproduction in the round-eared elephant shrew (Macroscelides proboscideus) in the southern Karoo, South Africa. Journal of Zoology, London, 240
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Lawes, M. J., and M. R. Perrin. “Risk-Sensitive Foraging Behaviour of the Round-Eared Elephant Shrew (Macroscelides Proboscideus).” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 37, no. 1,25 Feb. 1995, pp. 31–37.,
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Elephant shrews are among only a handful of monogamous mammals, making them a model group for the study of
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Schubert, Melanie; Schradin, Carsten; Rödel, Heiko G.; Pillay, Neville; Ribble, David O. (2009-12-01).
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where the temperature ranges from 18°C to 6°C in the winter and 30°C to 22°C during the summer.
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Dumbacher, J. P.; Rathbun, G. B.; Smit, H. A.; Eiseb, S. J. (2012). Steinke, Dirk (ed.).
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to distinguish it from its sister species; formerly misleadingly named the "
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California Academy of Sciences. Elephant-shrews or Sengis: Macroscelidea.
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The round-eared elephant shrew does not reproduce during the winter.
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Index

Macroscelides flavicaudatus

Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Macroscelidea
Macroscelididae
Macroscelides
Binomial name
Shaw

elephant shrew
Botswana
Namibia
South Africa
shrubland
grassland
insects
gestation period
monogamy
mate guarding
Round-eared elephant shrew, as described by Robert Jacob Gordon in 1779 or 1780.
Robert Jacob Gordon
Southeast Africa

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