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TIL Rufous elephant shrews are native to the dry savannas of eastern Africa.The shrews spend as much as half their waking hours maintaining tidy trails to navigate through their territory and find food. Remarkably, they do not sleep with their eyes closed and only sleep for 2 or 3 minutes at a time.

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