Oh dear
El Reg tries to avoid being sexist and ends up being (mildly) sexist and racist at the same time.
Take a look at this critter. No, it's not a mouse, it's not a rodent at all ... This creature is more closely related to an elephant than a shrew. Photo of the mouse Boffins from California Academy of Sciences have found a new, round-eared species of elephant shrew, which are known colloquially as a sengi. The newly …
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Between 2005 and 2011, the team went to visit the wee mammal's home in northwestern Namibia and managed to snare a further 16 examples of the beast, which is called Macroscelides micus and is totally monogamous throughout its life.
A spokesman said 'We are so excited to have discovered this new beast before the last 16 disappeared and the species became extinct!'
"The researchers were shocked to find a unfamiliar species of round-eared creature while rooting through the university's archives."
While its fortuitous that an unknown species should be living in the universities own archives undiscovered, it does raise questions about the university's pest control standards doesn't it?
It's Africa! Cats every bloody where from lions to small wild cats with lots in between. True that most are not seen though.
Seen plenty of sengi all across southern Africa, mainly when sitting in a camp inadvertently pitched across one of their race tracks.
While this particular species may be new to western collectors bet the locals knew about it thousands of years ago.
I seem to remember a few years ago people discovered that "the" african elephant is actually two different species. It hadn't been realised earlier because they have two completely different ranges, but it turns out that African has the forest elephant and the plains elephant. Now this makes three!