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This adorable footage shows a family of blind baby shrews clinging onto each other's tails to make sure they don't get separated from their mother. The heartwarming clip of the tiny animals was ...
Adult Etruscan shrews only grow to about 4 centimeters in length (this doesn’t include their tiny tails, which can be as long as 3 centimeters). Baby shrews gestate for about four weeks ...
A tree shrew recently born at the National Zoo Photo by Clyde Nishimura In August, at the National Zoo, the efforts of keepers and biologists finally came to fruition as two baby tree shrews were ...
Mom shrew heads the line and each baby bites down on the tail of the shrew in front of it. They mustn’t let go because their lives (and the lives of their siblings behind them) depend on it.
A baby elephant shrew, born to one of Zoo Boise’s animals March 5, is starting to poke its head out of the nest, according to a zoo press release. The zoo also announced a new baby wallaby ...
Last month, a new baby elephant-shrew was born at the Zoo's Small Mammal House, but keepers didn't even know about it until recently and then trained a camera on it (above). The proud parents are ...
Potter Park Zoo in Lansing announced Wednesday that two northern tree shrew pups were born on Jan. 13. Their birth marks the first successful litter for parents Caper (4 years old) and Katherine ...
The Mt. Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the central Sierra Nevada, has never been photographed in the 100 years since it was discovered. It took three industrious college students ...
A video that Stomp contributor Kenneth took of a shrew and its three babies in Sengkang will leave you with mixed feelings. Kenneth said he came across the unusual sight between Blocks 128 and 132 ...