“We caught a Mount Lyell shrew within like the first two hours… and I think the fact that we ended up catching six of them, and we caught one so easily shows that it’s not crazy difficult ...

Shrews have incredibly fast metabolisms and will die if they don’t eat every two hours, Subramanyan said. To catch a living shrew, researchers need to monitor their traps constantly. If ...

That is, until three young researchers ventured into the mountains with a plan. To catch the shifty shrew on film for the first time, Vishal Subramanyan, Prakrit Jain and Harper Forbes planned a ...

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