Small, soft seeds may form part of the winter diet. A masked shrew requires large quantities of food each day, and one kept in captivity ate 3.3 times its own body weight in a 24 hour period. Merriam ...

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 ...

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 shrew is found only in the Eastern Sierra Nevada ... To catch the shrews, the team set up 150 pitfall traps baited with worms and cat food, which they checked every two hours to ensure the ...

Vishal Subramanyan, Prakrit Jain, and Harper Forbes, three students from the University of Berkeley, spent several nights tracking this shrew. Armed with traps and patience, they successfully captured ...