The mice/Lyme theory is based on studies of animals caught in traps. But it turns out that shrews, moles, squirrels, chipmunks and other possible carriers of the bacteria that causes Lyme disease ...

All predators of small mammals take deer mice. Some of these are hawks, owls, snakes, short-tailed shrews, foxes, minks, weasels, bobcats and coyotes. Choate, J. R. 1973. Identification and recent ...

The neurotoxic saliva of the short-tailed shrew is a unique adaptation among North American mammals. Its poisonous bite is a result of secretions of the submaxillary glands which contain enough toxin ...

Etruscan shrews are 20 times lighter than the average adult mouse. They have a body length of about 4 cm excluding the tail ...

The animal is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand A little-known mammal related to an elephant but as small as a mouse has been ... species" of elephant shrew was in the 1970s, despite ...

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 ...