What an amazing little creature the Elephant Shrew is. Just recently discovered in the Kenyan Rainforests by a team of research scientists, it is apparently closely related to the Elephant more so than to a normal Shrew. Weighing in at 600 grams and being 2 foot long, it is quite large but of course no where near as big as it's relative the Elephant, in fact, it's amazing that a creature of this size can be related to an Elephant at all!
What a cute lil fellah... :-)
Apparently this area of the world has not been very well documented at all - due to security concerns and an infestation of sleeping sickness, a parasite transmitted by the tsetse fly, not many people have ventured into this part of the rainforest. I imagine there will be lots more discoveries to come yet.