Short-tailed shrews entering water, or as more likely, swept by flooding, may be eaten by fish, e.g., the stomach of a 71 cm (28 in) northern pike taken from Rich Lake, Essex Co., October 4, 1986, ...

Sizing them up: Adult short-tailed shrews measure about 3¾ to 5½ inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail – much smaller than the mammals (dogs, cats, people) we often think of.

So, while the northern short-tailed shrew may look like a friendly weasel frolicking in the brush, it is more comparable to a toxin-drooling Komodo dragon than the mammals it shares its habitat with.

This strain is called Camp Hill, named for the place near Auburn, Alabama, where four infected northern short-tailed shrews were caught in 2021. “The discovery of a henipavirus in North America ...

The short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda Say) is known to secrete a true venom from its submaxillary glands and delivers it by ducts to the bases of the lower incisor teeth.

Large Short-tailed Shrew. According to the National Park Service, these shrews are about 4 inches long and weigh about an ounce. They're insectivores in the same family of animals as moles, ...

The Camp Hill virus was detected in northern short-tailed shrews, a small mammal that is commonly found in the U.S. and Canada, according to the press release.

Dr. Wendy Hood with The Hood Lab told AL.com her team collected the northern short-tailed shrew that other researchers used to detect the novel Camp Hill virus, named after the Tallapoosa County ...

This strain is called Camp Hill, named for the place near Auburn, Alabama, where four infected northern short-tailed shrews were caught in 2021. “The discovery of a henipavirus in North America ...