Alex Hyde / Yellow streaked tenrec {Hemicentetes semispinosum} at night with spines erected in threat display, Maroansetra, Madagascar

Pete Oxford / Small Madagascar hedgehog (Echinops telfari) curled up in a ball. Krindy Forest, Western Madagascar

Konrad Wothe / Young tenrecs (Setifer setosus) Madagascar, Africa, captive

Inaki Relanzon / A child selling a Tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus) bushmeat. North Madagascar, Africa.

Inaki Relanzon / Children selling Common Tenrecs (Tenrec ecaudatus) as bushmeat by a road. North Madagascar, Africa.

Alan Watson / Tailless tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus) in montane rainforest at 800 metres, Andasibe Mantadia National Park, Madagascar January 2009

Pete Oxford / Yellow streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosum) Madagascar

Nick Garbutt / Yellow streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosum) foraging, Mantadia NP, Madagascar

Inaki Relanzon / Common tailless tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus) captive, from central Madagascar

Inaki Relanzon / Common tailless tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus) captive, from central Madagascar

Inaki Relanzon / Yellow streaked tenrec {Hemicentetes semispinosum} Madagascar

Nick Garbutt / Lesser hedgehog tenrec / Small madagascar hedgehog {Echinops telfairi} climbing on branch at night, Ifaty spiny forest, south west Madagascar