Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse
The specific name "hildegardeae" was given in honour of the British anthropologist Hildegarde Beatrice Hinde, who spent twenty-four years in Africa with her husband Sidney Langford Hinde, a colonial administrator; she studied East African languages, writing several grammars and vocabularies.Its range extends from Angola, northern Zambia and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, eastwards to Tanzania, and northwards to Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan.Individuals recorded in southern Angola were probably the closely related Woosnam's broad-headed mouse (Zelotomys woosnami).Its typical habitat is moist savanna, tall grassland and scrub, often at the edge of swamps or forests.It forages on the ground under cover of the long grasses and foliage and feeds mainly on arthropods, such as grasshoppers and crickets, dung beetles, other insects and myriapods, with some fruit.