meadow voles are seldom numerous in the places where short- tailed shrews are common. Meadow voles construct surface runways and underground tunnels that may honeycomb an area. They build roughly ...

A pygmy shrew kept in captivity provides some notion of the energy requirements of the species. It consumed parts of the bodies of 20 masked shrews, one white-footed mouse, one red-backed vole, one ...

Vishal Subramanyan and Prakrit Jain had never even heard of the rare shrew they would soon spend months chasing. The students were both in the same mammalogy class at the University of California, ...

Sometimes confused for moles and voles, shrews are smaller, have a very pointed snout, brown or gray fur, and their ears are flattened against their head. "These small animals are not rodents ...

Voles are also known as meadow mice, field mice and ground moles. They are not a mole, nor a mouse, nor a shrew. I don’t think I have ever seen a shrew, so I looked it up. Shrews use the tunnels ...

The arrival of the bank vole and another introduced species, the greater white-toothed shrew, has given barn owls more choice of prey, fuelling their expansion. Barn owl groups have been ...

Worldwide there are 350 different species of shrews. They eat everything from insects to seeds and small animals. Although they may look like mice or voles, shrews are not rodents. Instead ...