How long do elephant shrews live?
between 1 and 2 years
What are elephant shrews closely related to?
Elephant shrews are not, in fact, shrews. Recent evidence suggests that they are more closely related to a group of African mammals that includes elephants, sea cows, and aardvarks. Elephant shrews (also called sengis) are represented by a single family, the Macroscelididae, including four genera and 19 living species.
Do elephants have 2 Hearts?
Elephants have a higher blood pressure than humans do. The ventricle is the larger of the two types of heart chambers (the smaller one being the atrium) and is responsible for pumping blood out of the heart.
Which animal has 13 part of heart?
Cockroach
Which animal has teeth in its stomach?
Lobsters and crabs have teeth— in their stomachs. These are used to crush its food, but they also have a strange secondary function in ghost crabs: making a noise that wards off predators. Believe it or not, lobsters, as well as other crustaceans such as crabs and crayfish, have teeth in their stomach!
Do animals laugh?
But it’s recently been documented that some animals do indeed share a very human trait: laughter. Research among dogs, rats, chimpanzees and other apes suggests that these species emit a unique sound in response to pleasure.
Which animal has longest tongue?
Chameleons
What animals do not have a tongue?
Taste sensations Other animals naturally have no tongues, such as sea stars, sea urchins and other echinoderms, as well as crustaceans, says Chris Mah via email. Mah is a marine invertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and has discovered numerous species of sea stars.
Which animal does not have brain?
Sponges
Which animal does not have eyes?
Researchers said on Thursday that the red brittle star, called Ophiocoma wendtii, is only the second creature known to be able to see without having eyes – known as extraocular vision – joining a single species of sea urchin.
Do any animals have 3 eyes?
The Tuatara, a lizardlike reptile that lives only in New Zealand, has those three “eyes”. It belongs to a group of reptiles that once included many other creatures, but today, the Tuatara is the only surviving member of that group.