Golden Rumped Sengi Essay

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The Golden Rumped Sengi is a type of elephant shrew, which has a small cat’s size. It has a long, flexible snout, it is an insectivore, it shares its ancestry with elephants, and it lives in coastal dense scrub forests and lowland semi-deciduous forests. There are fossils that show that the Elephant Sengi appeared about 50 million years ago. It listed and endangered species in 2010. It is globally endangered because of habitat loss because the remaining areas are too small for them to support large populations of the species. They are more vulnerable because the trees are being cut down by humans. The IUCN has a Conservation Action Plan to protect the golden rumped sengi, which shows that in order to keep the species from being

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