| Among the available prints are delicately rendered portraits of a platypus, a weasel and a tenrec from A General History of Quadrupeds. |
| I studied the Madagascan tenrec, a small insectivore that looks a bit like a hedgehog, which people around my village would secretly eat. |
| In this family and in the tenrec most of the species are protected by spines implanted in the skin-muscle, or panniculus carnosus. |
| In addition to its webbed feet, keeled tail, and water-repellent fur, the amphibious tenrec also has the body form, habits, and diet of water shrews. |
| Unbelievably, the lesser hedgehog tenrec is really the cousin of elephants, aardvarks and sea cows and not closely related to hedgehogs at all. |
| After tickling the tapirs, the kids got to handle a skunk, a bearded dragon and a hedgehog-like cutie called a tenrec. |
