Tag: Somalia
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Lost and Found: The Somali Elephant Shrew is back!
The Somali Sengi, also known as the Somali Elephant Shrew, is back after a 50-year hiatus. The small insectivorous mammal endemic to Somalia was deemed extinct since the 1970s by the Global Wildlife Conservation’s list of lost species. But scientists recently rediscovered a thriving population of Somali Sengi in Djibouti. “Here we report new evidence…