Are there any good tenrec exhibits in zoos that actually tell you about tenrecs?

Whist a lot of work goes on behind the scenes with the tenrec specimens and Afrotherians in general, I don't think there is any immediate plans to move the specimens on display all together into the main mammal gallery.
Which is a shame as I think what you say sounds a no brainer really and I will ask this exact question next time I'm in the museum.
The main mammal gallery has been the same since I was a child so I'm sure a bit of it could do with a reshuffle :D
 
A little off topic, but anyone interested in Madagascan animals should check out Extinct Madagascar by Steven Goodman. It covers reconstructions of most of the recently departed fauna, including Plesioryctopus, which a recent analysis in PLoS One has shown was actually a tenrec relative, not as was previously thought a relative of Aarvarks - it was the Madagascan anteater basically.
 
Zoovolunteer said:
A little off topic, but anyone interested in Madagascan animals should check out Extinct Madagascar by Steven Goodman. It covers reconstructions of most of the recently departed fauna, including Plesioryctopus, which a recent analysis in PLoS One has shown was actually a tenrec relative, not as was previously thought a relative of Aarvarks - it was the Madagascan anteater basically.
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Thanks much, Zoovolunteer. This is fascinating. Could the tenrecs have evolved a convergent aardvark form?! That would be extremely cool, and consistent with their convergence with otters, moles, shrews, hedgehogs, and mice.
 
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