Because our human ears can't hear ultrasonic noises, when capturing the tenrec stridulation noises on the videos linked below, the BBC used a bat detector so they could pick up the noises and ...

DUST BATH: Briar the tenrec was seen giving himself a dust bath in a tiny bathtub at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio recently. Tenrecs are native to Madagascar and use dust instead of water to keep ...

Robtoy, who has shown and bred hedgehogs for about 20 years, believes tenrecs are more personable. Their quills are softer, they never emit the so-called “hedgie death scream.” Their loudest ...

Briar the tenrec took a dust bath in a mini bathtub at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio recently. The zoo says the animals like to cover themselves in dust to mask the smell of their body so they can ...

This includes a small, unique, and quite frankly, adorable animal known as the lesser hedgehog tenrec. While many people are unaware of this mammal, upon seeing it they are quick to notice its ...

Tollkühn/ullstein bild via Getty Images Thirty-two species of tenrec that have made do without quills, after all. So what was it about life millions of years ago that coaxed these five other ...

AND JOINING US LIVE THIS MORNING IS JENNY EAGAN WITH A TENREC THAT I’VE NEVER EVEN HEARD ABOUT BEFORE. WHAT IS THIS? YEAH, SO THIS IS HAVE A REALLY LONG NAME. SO LESSER MADAGASCAR HEDGEHOG TENREC.

Say hello to a pretty unusual creature. This may look like a cross between a mouse and a hedgehog, but it's actually a lowland streaked tenrec. Four of the little creatures have arrived at Chester ...