TENREC TALES

Muse | May 1, 2004| | Copyright

Link olson loves tenrecs. A biologist at the University of Alaska Museum, Olson flies to the other side of the world to study these strange animals. Some look like hedgehogs. Others look like moles. Some act like shrews, others like otters. Some talk to each other by rattling the porcupinelike quills that cover their bodies. Some are like bats and use sonar to find their way around in the dark. Others give birth to 32 young at a time.

To Link Olson and other biologists, tenrecs are mysterious creatures. They live only in Madagascar, a Texas-sized island that lies 300 miles off the east coast ...

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