designed for shrews to fall into as they walked across the ground, and constantly monitored the traps for three consecutive days, only sleeping for two hours at a time to monitor the animals ...

The shrews are "highly prolific predators" that can eat several times their body mass on a daily basis, Jain said. He noted they also serve as an important part in the food chain for other ...

It was finally ready for its close-up. The rare Mount Lyell shrew was recently photographed for the first time by a group of college students. The pointy-nosed, beady-eyed, greyish-brown creature ...

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 ...

probably mistaking the rank-smelling shrew for a field mouse, lays a predatory paw on it, the shrew usually expires from shock. Contact us at [email protected] ...

“You trap some shrews, you photograph them, you release them, and by that time there are more shrews. So it was pretty nonstop.” As well as the Mount Lyell shrew, the team also captured ...

Vishal Subramanyan, 22, one of the researchers who photographed the animal, said it might be the first time a human has seen a living Mount Lyell shrew. The shrew hasn’t been trapped or recorded ...

One of the shyest animals in the region is the Mount Lyell shrew. As Smithsonian reports, the tiny mammal was finally caught on camera for the first time since it was identified about 100 years ago.