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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 ...
That's the case with the newly-described shrew-mouse. In 2007 and 2010, Balete went on expeditions to Mount Kampalili on the island of Mindanao as part of a Field Museum collaboration with the ...
OCONOMOWOC - Children might not be the only ones frolicking on a popular all-inclusive Oconomowoc playground, and that has sent city officials on a mouse hunt. Or is it a shrew, the more outdoorsy ...
It has the body of a mouse, the snout of an anteater, and the poor vision of a mole, and it’s creating tunnels and holes in ...
(Credit: Danny Balete) Photograph of the holotype of the newly discovered mouse. A shrew-like mouse species recently discovered in the mountains of the Philippines may play a vital role in the ...
It consumed parts of the bodies of 20 masked shrews, one white-footed mouse, one red-backed vole, one pygmy shrew, plus 22 grasshoppers, 20 houseflies, 2 crane flies, one beetle, and the liver of a ...
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 ...
A badger and a mouse arrive and the three friends party, rocking out to Shrew’s keyboard jams. Shrew loves the company of his friends, but he does not feel sad when they leave and his apartment ...
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 ...
That’s the case with the newly-described shrew-mouse. In 2007 and 2010, Balete went on expeditions to Mount Kampalili on the island of Mindanao as part of a Field Museum collaboration with the ...