A dancing duo of lesser tenrecs have been caught on camera appearing to perform jazz hands together.
The snap shows the pair perched on the ground with their eyes closed and paws outstretched.
Photographer Jean Wiltshire captured the moment at Paignton Zoo.
While it looks as though they're having a great time hoofing away, in fact they are asleep and pressed up happily against the window of their exhibit. Paignton Zoo spokesperson Phil Knowling said: "Tenrecs are real oddballs. They have fur and spines and resemble hedgehogs, but are only distantly related to them."
The lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is forest and grassland and it eats mainly insects. Tenrecs fill the sort of ecological niche occupied elsewhere by hedgehogs, mice, shrews, opossums and otters. While some tenrecs
