Yet it seems that these little tenrec chaps are probably more closely related to golden moles, aardvarks, and elephant shrews, and (more distantly) to elephants and sea cows than to common hedgehogs as they belong to the Afrotheria clade. There are also tenrecs that look like shrews (including the Dobson's Shrew Tenrec - no relation) and otters.
What a marvellous thing evolution is.
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