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Northern short-tailed shrew

Blarina brevicauda

Tentang nama: The species name brevicauda comes from the Latin words brevis and cauda, meaning "short tail".1

Tidak berbahayaTidak berbahaya kepada manusia. Tiada apa yang perlu dirisaukan.

Mamalia berbisa

GigitanMakan: Serangga

Bahaya kepada manusia: RinganSeperti sengatan lebah atau kurang. Boleh dikatakan tidak berbahaya kepada manusia.

The northern short-tailed shrew is a small, very active mammal that lives in eastern and central North America. It is one of the few venomous mammals, and it uses venom in its saliva to paralyse the animals it hunts. It is also a voracious eater that can eat up to three times its own weight in food each day.1

Hidup di

Central and eastern North America, from southern Saskatchewan to Atlantic Canada, south to northern Arkansas and Georgia1

Amerika Utara

Laman utama

It lives in grasslands, old fields, fencerows, marshy areas, and deciduous and coniferous forests, and it also uses household gardens. It prefers places that are moist, with leaf litter or thick plant cover. It tunnels below ground, through leaf litter, or at the boundary between snow and ground.1

Panjang

11 cm hingga 14 cm (4.3 in hingga 5.5 in)1

Berat

15 g hingga 30 g (0.5 oz hingga 1.1 oz)1

Kelajuan maksimum

kira-kira 4 km/j (2.5 mph)

Di darat, anggaran kasar

Apa yang ia makan?

It is mostly carnivorous and prefers insects such as beetles, earthworms, voles, snails, and other shrews. It also eats salamanders, frogs, snakes, birds, and mice, and it mostly hunts within a few hours after sunset. It often hoards food, storing about 87% of the prey it catches.1

Gambar Northern short-tailed shrew — Northern short-tailed shrew. Gambar: Gilles Gonthier. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Cara mengenalinya

Thick, velvety fur on the back that is black, brownish black, or silvery grey1
Underside fur a little lighter and greyer than the back1
A very short tail, less than 25% of its total length1
Summer coat is shorter and paler than the winter coat1

Kuasa bisa

Gigitan

Bisa keluar melalui taring atau giginya apabila ia menggigit.

Apa kesan bisanya?

Its saliva contains a kallikrein-like protease, a toxin that paralyses and subdues prey. The toxin is strong enough to kill small animals, including some somewhat larger than the shrew itself. In people, it causes painful bites when they handle the shrew.1

Berapa bahaya ia kepada manusia?

Bahaya kepada manusia: RinganSeperti sengatan lebah atau kurang. Boleh dikatakan tidak berbahaya kepada manusia.

Its bites are painful to people who try to handle it.1

Apa yang ia buat apabila takut?

Its scent glands produce a musky odour that deters mammalian carnivores.1

Jika ia menggigit

Basuh luka dengan bersih dan dapatkan bantuan perubatan.

Sentiasa hubungi nombor kecemasan dahulu (112, 000, 911). Ini panduan pertolongan cemas umum, bukan nasihat perubatan. Asas pertolongan cemas

Kekal selamat

Jangan sesekali sentuh, tangkap atau usik haiwan liar, walaupun yang kecil, dan walaupun ia nampak tidur atau mati.
Beri ia ruang. Jika kamu terjumpa, bertenang, undur perlahan-lahan dan biarkan ia pergi.
Jika ia menggigit kamu: bertenang, jangan bergerak, hubungi nombor kecemasan (112, 000, 911) atau pergi ke hospital dengan segera. Ingat rupanya, gambar boleh membantu.

Ia bukan mahu memburu kamu. Ia guna bisanya untuk menangkap makanan atau melindungi diri, dan ia lebih suka bersembunyi. Lagi tentang keselamatan

Di mana di dunia?

Afrika Asia Eropah Amerika Utara Amerika Selatan Australia & Oceania

Berapa besar ia?

Berapa panjang ia?

Berapa berat ia?

seberat 30 klip kertas

sepanjang 4 blok binaan mainan disusun sebarisboleh melepasi 100 meter dalam 90 saat (manusia paling laju perlukan 9.6)

Berapa besar Northern short-tailed shrew berbanding KAMU?

Hanya matematik dalam pelayar kamu. Tiada apa yang disimpan atau dihantar ke mana-mana.

Berapa laju ia?

Kura-kura darat kira-kira 0.3 km/j (0.19 mph)

Northern short-tailed shrew kira-kira 4 km/j (2.5 mph)

Orang berjalan kira-kira 5 km/j (3.1 mph)

berguna untuk diketahui

Fakta

It is one of the few venomous mammals, and its saliva is used to subdue prey.1

It can eat up to three times its own weight in food each day.1

It is thought to have a poor sense of smell and very limited vision, so it uses echolocation and a fine sense of touch instead.1

Its winter food intake is 43% higher than in summer, because it must work harder to keep its body warm.1

Its nests can be up to 20 cm across and lined with leaves or vole fur, and its waste is kept in a separate latrine area.1

Untuk pakar bisa

Nama saintifik: Blarina brevicauda
Kumpulan: Mamalia berbisa
Keluarga: Soricidae2
Susunan: Eulipotyphla
Benua-benua: Amerika Utara
Anak: Females usually have two litters a season, each with six to eight young. The young are born hairless and blind, weighing less than a gram.1
Keadaannya di alam liar: Least Concern1
Bahaya kepada manusia: 1 / 5: Ringan3

Dari mana fakta datang

Northern short-tailed shrew (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Blarina brevicauda (iNaturalist): nama dan pengelasan.
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