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All shrews are tiny, most no larger than a mouse. The largest species is the Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus) of tropical Asia, which is about 15 cm (6 in) long and weighs around 100 g (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 oz) [2] The Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus), at about 3.5 cm (1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) and 1.8 grams (28 grains), is the smallest known living terrestrial mammal.
Like all shrews, the Asian house shrew is plantigrade and long-nosed. The teeth are a series of sharp points to poke holes in insect exoskeletons . It is the largest of the shrew species, weighing between 50 and 100 g and being about 15 cm long from snout to tip of the tail.
Eurasian pygmy shrews are solitary animals, active throughout the day and night and inhabiting areas of dense vegetation across a broad elevation range. [3] It lives off seeds, small insects and other invertebrates. [4] They use the burrows or tunnels of other rodents to live in, alone they burrow under tree stumps.They have many predators.
Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors. Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except Antarctica. This list contains circa 2,700 species in 518 genera in the order Rodentia. [1]
Desert shrew (Notiosorex crawford) Merriam's shrew (Sorex merriami) Montane shrew (Sorex monticolus) American water shrew (Sorex palustris) Preble's shrew (Sorex preblei) Inyo shrew (Sorex tenellus) Trowbridge's shrew (Sorex trowbridgii) Vagrant shrew (Sorex vagrans)
The common shrew's carnivorous and insectivorous diet consists of insects, slugs, spiders, worms, amphibians and small rodents. Shrews need to consume 200% to 300% of their body weight in food each day in order to survive; to achieve this they must eat every 2 to 3 hours, and they will starve if they go without food much longer than that.
The northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) is the largest shrew in the genus Blarina, [3] and occurs in the northeastern region of North America. [4] It is a semifossorial, highly active, and voracious insectivore and is present in a variety of habitats like broadleaved and pine forests among shrubs and hedges as well as grassy river banks. [5]
The Brazilian shrew mouse (Blarinomys breviceps), [2] also known as the blarinine akodont, [3] is a rodent in the tribe Akodontini from the Atlantic Forest of eastern and southeastern Brazil. [1] It is the only species in the genus Blarinomys. [3] Phylogenetic analysis suggest that there are two clear geographical clades, a northeastern and ...