Running fast on light feet, an elephant shrew is vicious and always has a back up plan. Elephant shrews, or sengis, are set apart by their unique characteristics. They have different behaviors and traits, they live in many parts of Africa, they’re insectivores, and it has a family tree just as unique as it’s self. They have different behaviors and traits. They clear paths and keep their tails horizontal as they run, (Short-eared Elephant Shrews, 2015). Their long, slim legs make them swift on their feet as they rely on their ability to bound at any given time, their legs also help them leap up to 3 feet, (Hearst, 2012). They have a pointed heads and long, trunk-like noses and a hunchback posture, (Zappa, 2015). They have large eyes and ears and are typically gray or brown in color, (Elephant Shrews, 2015). They live in pairs and rarely ever see others of their kind, they’re often…show more content… They live in a variety of places. They make their homes in areas such as forests, deserts, grasslands, and coastal bush forests. Most burrow into the the soil of semi-desert sands, dry grasses, or shrubs, ( Short-eared Elephant Shrews, 2015). Elephant Shrews are insectivores. Their noses sniff out food on the paths and trail ways they made. Their diet includes ants, termites, spiders, millipedes, and worms, (Zappa, 2015). although they are insectivores they have been known to eat plants, (Elephant Shrews, 2015). Elephant shrews have a family tree just as unique as themselves. Despite their name, they are not related to the shrew at all, (Short-eared Elephant Shrews, 2015). They are related to an ancient animal that lived over 100 years ago, that branched out to not only 17 different species of sengis, but also elephants, sea-cows, hyraxes, aardvarks, tenrecs, and golden moles, (Waterman, 2010). Their distinctive family chain has resulted in the fascinating creature known as an elephant