Thank you for your quick answer.

I have read yours and the Eisenberg-article. I am convinced that they are not harder to keep than the shrew-species from the genus Sorex.

But if they are no colonies outside Madagascar then I will shurely not keep them....

It´s a pity that there aren´t a few more Tanrecspecies-Colonies in captivity...It would be much easier to study them.

What happened with the water-tenrec? Where there any new attempts to keep them?

Best greetings
Thomas Wesener