Afrotheria

Question 1

found in Madagascar, Africa, and Comoro islands, long snouts with small eyes, cloaca, smooth or shiny fur, some have rudimentary echolocation, insectivores or omnivores, some are heterothermic, live in forests or deserts

Answer 1

order Afrosoricidae
family tenrecidae
tenrecs and otter shrews

Question 2

highly fossorial, lack pinnae, large malleus, covered eyes, powerful forelimbs for digging, ossified flexor tendon in forearm large claws on digits 2 and 3, convergent with moles and marsupial moles

Answer 2

order afrosoricidae
family chrysochloridae
golden moles

Question 3

disjunct distribution across sub-Saharan Africa, inhabit open plains to tropical forests, primarily insectivores, highly territorial with scent markings and drumming, some species bask to thermoregulate

Answer 3

order macroscelidae
elephant shrew

Question 4

live in sub-Saharan Africa, powerful diggers, long protrusible tongue to collect termites, elongated tongue with long slender dentary, lack incisors and canines, rootless columnar cheek teeth with no enamel, fleshy tentacles on nasal septum, powerful hearing and smell; 1 species

Answer 4

order Tubulidentata
Orycteropus afer - aardvark