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Tiny trailblazers: Elephant shrews
use their long snouts to hunt for
insect %f,10,h\prey%prey on the %f,10,g\forest%forest floor and
to clear trails through the leaves so
that they can escape %f,10,h\predator%predators quick-
ly. Scientists think rabbits, hares,
and elephant shrews may have had a
common ancestor--100 million years
ago--and that elephant shrews are
not closely related to true shrews at
all.