Diet
Four-toed elephant shrews are heavily dependent on rich leaf litter composition for their food and nests. Their main prey are small invertebrates. Ants and termites are most common, but they have been known to feed on crickets, grasshoppers, spiders, centipedes, millipedes, and earthworms. They also feed on seeds, fruits, buds, and other plant material. Four-toed elephant shrews eat much like anteaters; they flick small foods into their mouths.
Based on where these four-toed elephant shrews live, their main diets can vary. In Kenya, their diets include termites, plant matter, centipedes, ants, crickets and cockroaches, millipedes, spiders, and other similar creatures.
Some of the predators of the four-toed shrews are snakes, raptors, and carnivores, and in some cases, domestic cats.
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