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sengi

(ˈsɛŋɡɪ)
n
(Animals) another name for elephant shrew
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sen•gi

(ˈsɛŋ gi)
n., pl. -gi.
a monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, equal to 1/10,000 of a zaire.
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Table I provides data on volumes of the sengi's OB and OBC and the proportions of the volumes of these structures to those of the cerebrum and the entire brain.
The post is a 'fantastic opportunity' to work with one of the largest ex situ breeding groups of Rodrigues fruit bats, as well as other exciting species on the section from Sengi to Capybara.
CREATURE FEATURES Frog, sengi, peacock spider and hermit crab
First, it's a story about two animals, Sloth and Sengi (a little elephant shrew), trying to break out of the zoo.
Sengi weigh between 30 and 45g and grow only to be four inches in length, making them the smallest of the 19 sub-species.
Small mammals captured in Namibia during 2010-2012 and tested for arenaviruses * Mammal species Common name Aethomys chrysophilus Red veld rat Micaelamys namaquensis Namaqua rock mouse Crocidura fuscomurina Bicolored musk shrew Crocidura hirta Lesser red musk shrew Dendromus melanotis Gray climbing mouse Elephantulus intufi Bushveld sengi Gerbilliscus spp.
To snatch an ant, a sengi shoots out a skinny tongue from its mouth, which lies far back toward the neck.
They needn't have bothered though, because no one in their right mind or above the optimum viewing age for a Disney/Pixar film would have assumed that the CGI micro-world of scampering, twitchy-nosed African sengi and desert dwelling American Grasshopper mice was real.
The only thing that will be crawling will be your skin as the first programme features the extraordinary elephant shrew, aka the sengi, who can run faster on its little legs than a cheetah.
Cavegn et al., "The hippocampus of the eastern rock sengi: cytoarchitecture, markers of neuronal function, principal cell numbers, and adult neurogenesis," Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, vol.
Sengi et al.(14) reported that 58% of the mothers and 26% of the fathers were affected.