Northern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda)

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Northern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda)

From: Robert@Arkansas
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals
Subject: Arkansas Wildlife Summer 1998 - arwl303-short-tailed shrew 1.jpg
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 01:43:10 GMT

Short-tailed shrews have poor sense of sight and smell. They rely mostly on their acute hearing and highly developed sense of touch to locate prey, avoid enemies and find their way through their burrow systems.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals
as they now look upon the murder of men.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

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The northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) is the largest shrew in the genus Blarina, and occurs in the northeastern region of North America. It is a semifossorial, highly active, and voracious insectivore and is present in a variety of habitats. It is notable in that it is one of the few venomous mammals. The specific epithet, brevicauda, is a combination of the Latin brevis and cauda, meaning "short tail". Order: Eulipotyphla, Family: Soricidae.

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