One shrew, two far-apart populationsSourced
Senegal and Ethiopia.
Are these really the same species?
Populations classified as desert musk shrews occur in Senegal and Ethiopia, far apart on opposite sides of Africa. One researcher has argued that the distance may point to separate species. Their classification remains debatable.
The map itself
raises a question.
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