Meet the Giant Elephant Shrew | National Geographic

the animal is just waking up under this
pile of leaves is they know what’s the
right phrase amusingly eccentric meet
the giant elephant true at home here on
the forest floor in Africa’s Congo River
Basin why eccentric let’s start with a
name
this giant is 6 inches high and weighs
between 3 and 4 ounces the words giant
and elephant may both refer to its long
and highly mobile nose which it uses to
search for insects to suffer giant
elephant shrews are mammals that have
one baby at a time
this baby is hungry and wants to suckle
but this baby and this mother can’t seem
to figure it out
not that they don’t try then try and try
the female giant elephant Roe is in
charge of making the next usually a
modest mound of leaves piled in a
shallow depression in the ground of
course first she has to clear the site
this she does with risk efficiency
briston effective efficiency too brisk
she clears Gee Gee uh risk efficiency
there I knew she’d get it done now she
goes about creating the nest as her baby
watches
when life tosses a branch in your half
don’t fear it
where it