The masked shrew has the largest range of any North American shrew, and occurs throughout Alaska, Canada, the northern third of the U.S., as well as portions of the Great Basin, Rockies, and ...

These nests may be 30.5 cm (12 in) beneath the surface of the soil or under a rock or log. Food and Feeding Behavior: The neurotoxic saliva of the short-tailed shrew is a unique adaptation among North ...

Rare California Rodent Caught On Film For First Time. The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the ...

One of the shyest animals in the region is the Mount Lyell shrew. As Smithsonian reports, the tiny mammal was finally caught ...

The Sierra Nevada is a majestic North American mountain range stretching ... One of the shyest animals in the region is the Mount Lyell shrew. As Smithsonian reports, the tiny mammal was finally ...

The Mt. Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the central Sierra Nevada, has never been photographed in the 100 years since it was discovered. It took three industrious college students ...

Scientists have identified Camp Hill virus, the first known henipavirus in North America, in Alabama shrews. Henipaviruses, ...

Amazingly, shrews also echolocate like bats. The American zoologist E.R. Buchler discovered a half-century ago that when vagrant shrews’ ears were plugged, they twittered more loudly but were ...

With a voracious appetite for insects, a long snout, and beady little eyes, the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew is one intriguing mammal. Today, 95 percent of its former one-million-acre wetland and ...

The Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew is one of nine subspecies of ornate shrew occurring in the United States, and one of eight in California. Its lower-elevation wetland habitat is entirely surrounded ...

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