It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and hot deserts.

[3] According to the journal “Social Structure of the Bushveld Sengi (Elephantulus Intufi) in Namibia and the Evolution of Monogamy in the Macroscelidea” written by G. B. Rathburn and C.D.

Rathburn, the behavioral ecology of elephant shrews is best understood in the context of their evolutionary history.

There is strong evidence that their phylogeny is due to Macroscelidea which is part of a monophyletic African clade of mammals that represents one of four early eutherian radiations.