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Short Tailed Shrew 
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Insectivora
Family Soricidae
Genus Blarina
Species Blarina brevicauda

Index

Description Habitat Range Food Life Cycle
Survival Facts Human Impact References Links

 

 

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Description
Short tailed shrew is long nosed, small eyed. It can be brown but mostly metallic black with pink feet and a pink nose with a short ears and always a short tail.

 

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Habitat
The habitat is mostly fields, or in deep parts of the forests.  They live everywhere except for deserts.

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Range
The short tailed shrew population lives on the eastern side of the United States.

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Food
The shrew eats worms and other insects.  It also eats birds and sometimes mammals bigger that itself.

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Life Cycle
Females give birth after 2 weeks of pregnancy.  Young feed of their mothers milk for 2 to 3 weeks.  The short tailed shrew lives about 12 to 24 months.                               

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Survival
The short tailed shrew needs plenty of food, water and shelter to survive.  It also needs forests and fields along with the water.

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Facts
Some interesting facts about the short tailed shrew are;
  • It mates in both the spring and fall
  • It eats animals bigger than itself
  • It killed 60% of the larch sawfly population

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Human Impact
Humans should control where we put our houses because it can have a negative impact on the short tailed shrew population.

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