Baby Elephant-Shrew at National Zoo

We're sure a visit to the National Zoo is the last thing on your mind on this wintry morning, but DCist never falls down on the job when there's a new baby animal to coo over, snow be damned. Two of the Zoo's black and rufous giant elephant-shrews, or sengis, had a little baby elephant-shrew several weeks ago, but zookeepers in the Small Mammal House only announced they discovered the animal late Friday. Zoo biologist Ashton Shaffer, in this Flickr video, described the birth as rare, although the two parent elephant-shrews the Zoo acquired from the Philadelphia Zoo in 2007 have had at least four offspring since they arrived in D.C.