#sengi

[bjekkergauken]

Lion king: north africa DLC

[typhlonectes]

Western Rock Sengi (Elephantulus rupestris)

Despite its mouse-like appearance and diminutive size, this critter isn’t a rodent. In fact, it’s actually more closely related to elephants and sea cows! Typically weighing only 0.07 kg (2.5 oz), this insectivore’s diet includes ants and termites. It can be found in parts of Africa including Namibia and South Africa. Photo: kevinatbrakputs, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist

via: American Museum of Natural History 

[byteofsoup]

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

Golden-rumped Sengi (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus) AKA Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew

Status: Endangered

East Kenya

Threats: habitat fragmentation, trapping

[dustcomic]

Presenting, the new DUST designs!

Miles Clark (he/him) is a super genius environmental scientist who will save the world! ... Except, that's what Hannah told him. Several decades of cryostasis (to avoid the apocalypse) messed with his mind, and he can't remember anything of his past. Miles is very intelligent, enjoys arguments, and is curious to his own detriment. He will do anything to get what he wants. At first his personality always either clashes or completely melts together with other people, until he mellows out a bit. Although Hannah doesn’t do this on purpose, she makes Miles feel like his loss of memory is a tragedy, and he internalizes this as if it were his fault. He frantically searches for any clue of his past, and any way to rebuild the world.

Hannah Mayfield (she/her) is Miles' best friend from when she first woke up. Contrary to Miles, cryostasis didn't affect her much, and she remembers him as a great scientist. Hannah is sweet and caring and always tries to find the middle ground. She gets nervous when people are disagreeing. Hannah is scared of losing her past, and often has bouts of nostalgia. As such, she is a bit obsessed with returning to how it was, and frequently pressures Miles to at least remember something. When they stray from the path to the old world she frequently gets more and more stressed, but as her bonds to the others grow, especially the one with Sengi, she learns to let go a little.

When Ruuto Valerian (he/they) isn’t dreaming, they're daydreaming. Sengi and Miles frequently call them the laziest person on earth, and with the amount of surviving people, that may well be true. According to him he’s conserving his physical energy, whatever that may mean. He is relaxed in mind-to-mind connections, but physical contact easily flusters them. Although the others frequently joke about him not contributing, he does keep the group relaxed at times when it should, and they can randomly have the most brilliant ideas. Ruuto is spiritual, and a bit superstitious at times. He is very observant of people and their emotions when he’s on the outside of a conversation but is very oblivious in actual interactions.

Scarecrow (she/they) is a curious girl, who woke up a few months prior to Miles and Hannah but lives in the wilderness of the apocalypse as if she’s been living it her whole life. Her crow Dexter never leaves her side, and according to her, she can talk to not only him, but all animals. Scarecrow has a bad case of FOMO and as such they will impulsively jump into anything they deem even slightly interesting. The others can frequently get annoyed or even angry with Scarecrow due to her offensive jokes, and she claims she has “no filter”. While she vehemently denies any knowledge of the former world, she makes it obvious that her memories weren’t lost due to her constant references she makes to the old world. For some reason they try to ignore it, as if it never existed.

Sengi (she/her) is a lone wolf, but like all wolves, she would much rather be part of a pack. She grew up in the post-apocalyptic world and as such is well adjusted to its perils. From a young age she was separated from her parents and grandparents. When she met the others, she was initially hesitant to make connections. Although Sengi is big and muscular she’s also shy, a bit awkward, and when she tries to quip she can make the corniest jokes.

Lantern (he/him) is the nickname Ruuto has given to wandering robot EP-844 with seemingly no purpose. Having wandered for years means that he’s worn down and almost skeletal in structure. He never puts down the lantern he carries everywhere. At some point, Lantern made stalking Miles and the others his objective, but no-one is sure why.

NOA (they/them) is an artificial intelligence, the bellhop and manager of the ARC, the place where humans wake up after the world has ended! NOA is very enthusiastic and will do anything to make humans happy. For now.

[morphimus]

thank you so much!!!!!!! I just looked up "what the sneef I'm snorfin here animal" and your tags from a year ago informed me that it was an elephant shrew!!! those are such delightful creatures!!!! you are responsible for bringing so much joy into my life!!!!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!! I love their silly little snouts!!!!

See, it's moments like this that are the real reason why I tag everything!

And yeah elephant shrews rule.

Look at this little freak. It owns.

Elephant shrews (aka sengis) are related to aardvarks, manatees, and of course, elephants. (They aren't especially closely related to true shrews though.)

They belong to the taxonomic clade Afrotheria, which are basically a bunch of mammals that evolved in Africa in the Cretaceous period when it wasn't connected to Eurasia, so they diversified and spread out into lots of different environmental niches.

Presumably a lot of these Afrotherians died out as a result of competition with animals in the same niches from Eurasia when the continents came together, but thankfully we are still left with megafaunal elephants, big ol' sea cows, tiny insectivorous elephant shrews, semi-aquatic giant elephant shrews (potamogalidae), golden moles, and probably my personal favorite: tenrecs which are funny little hedgehoggy mouse-lookin' things that are basically only found in Madagascar.

Like, look at this picture of a lowland streaked tenrec.

It looks like an electric type Pokemon dude.

images yoinked from wikipedia (because I was too lazy to find more interesting or obscure pictures lmao): 1 round-eared elephant shrew 2 lowland streaked tenrec

[kitkirp]

I AM ELEPHANT SHREWS BIGGEST FAN IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE FIGHT ME

[porifebba]

August 2022

the leanbeefpatty meme with Sengi

and some of the gang's reactions

[olettebobow]

petit, petit sengi!!

[ourhousesaudade]

I'VE been reading up on small mammals again. I feel like sengìs need more love. Here's three that are particularly cool.

This is a golden rumped sengi. The colours on these little buggers are really striking, like a dark mahogany red through golden yellow with a nice stripey pattern on the back.

The chequered sengi also has a nice coat pattern, which is kind of goldish brown base with alternating white spots of darker brown and lighter gold

this is a four toed sengi. Big eyes, long whiskers and brown and white eyeliner.

Sengis are also known as elephant shrews but they're more closely related to tenerecs despite the name. There's about 20 known species of sengi as of 2023.

[simonezra]

I love them so much

may u draw a sengi/elephant shrew? love those little guys :3

yea

[dustcomic]

New DUST designs

Miles Clark is a super genius scientist who will save the world! Miles is very intelligent, enjoys arguments, and is curious to his own detriment. He will do anything to get what he wants. At first his personality always either clashes or completely melts together with the other person’s, until he mellows out a bit. Although Hannah doesn’t do this on purpose, she makes Miles feel like he is wasting time, and he internalizes this. He frantically searches for any way to rebuild the world.

Hannah is Miles' best friend from when she first woke up, and she remembers him as a great scientist. Hannah is sweet and caring and always tries to find the middle ground. She gets nervous when people are disagreeing. Hannah is scared of losing her past, and often has bouts of nostalgia in the post-apocalyptic world. As such, she is a bit obsessed with returning to how it was, and frequently pressures Miles to work harder. When they stray from the path to the old world she frequently gets more and more stressed, but as her bonds to the others grow, especially the one with Sengi, she learns to let go a little.

When Ruuto isn’t daydreaming, he’s dreaming in his sleep. Sengi and Miles frequently call him the laziest person on earth, and with the amount of surviving people, that may well be true. According to him he’s conserving his physical energy, whatever that may mean. Ruuto is spiritual, and a bit superstitious at times. He is relaxed in mind-to-mind connections, but physical contact easily flusters him. Although the others frequently joke about him not contributing, he can randomly have the most brilliant ideas. Ruuto is very observant of people and their emotions when he’s on the outside of a conversation but is very oblivious in actual interactions.

Sengi grew up in the post-apocalyptic world and as such is well adjusted to its perils. From a young age she was separated from her parents. When she met the others, she was initially hesitant to make connections. Was she cursed? Did she want the others to suffer the same fate her family did? Although Sengi is big and muscular she’s also shy, a bit awkward, and when she tries to quip she can make the corniest jokes.

Scarecrow is a curious girl, who woke up a few months prior to Miles and Hannah but lives in the wilderness of the apocalypse as if she’s been living it her whole life. Her crow Dexter never leaves her side, and according to her, she can talk to not only him, but all animals. Scarecrow has a bad case of FOMO and as such they will impulsively jump into anything they deem even slightly interesting. The others can frequently get annoyed or even angry with Scarecrow due to her offensive jokes, and she claims she has “no filter”. While she vehemently denies any knowledge of the former world, she makes it obvious that her memories weren’t lost due to her constant references she makes to the old world. For some reason they try to ignore it, as if it never existed.

Orson is a down-to-earth guy who is often the voice of reason in the group. His logic is unrivalled among a crowd of quite some emotional people, although he doesn't have very strong opinions. He likes it when people get along. Orson doesn't handle change very well, but luckily he does enjoy the serenity of nature very much, so the post-apocalyptic world isn't all bad for him. As an older brother, he tries to make Hannah stress out a bit less. Orson is a bit suspicious of Miles, but seeing as he's Hannah's best friend, he ignores the feelings.

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by @liberhoe

"how about the humble black and rufous elephant shrew? i think creature, but i bet others will say critter"

By B kimmel - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

[simonezra]

Absolutely gorgeous!!!

Here’s a detail of one of my works in my Streams in the Wasteland II exhibition, opening this Saturday at Corey Helford Gallery.

The title for this body of work was inspired by Isaiah 43:20-22 “The wild animals honour me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

I desire to capture the wonder of the animal kingdom, specifically, under-appreciated species like this Elephant Shrew, since they all reflect the beauty and design of the Creator.

[cadere-art]

A bit late to be posting about it, but I'm on Artfight this year! You can find me here: https://artfight.net/~Cadere

[porifebba]

July 2021

A very early Sengi! Back then she wasn't even in a post-apocalyptic setting yet. But the concept of awesome athletic fighty lady already existed.