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Northern short-tailed shrew

Blarina brevicauda

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

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Mammifers tissientads

MorsasMangia: Insects

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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

Viva en

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

America dal Nord

Pagina iniziala

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

Lunghezza

11 cm fin 14 cm (4,3 in fin 5,5 in)1

Paisa

15 g fin 30 g (0,5 oz fin 1,1 oz)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 4 km/h (2,5 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

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

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

Co renconuscher el

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

Forza dal tissi

Morsas

Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.

Tge fa ses tissi?

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

Quant privlus è el per umans?

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

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

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

Sch'el morda

Lava bain la plaja e tschertga agid medicinal.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
Sch'in tal animal ta morda: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Quant grev è el?

uschè grev sco 30 clips da palpiri

uschè lung sco 4 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auterpudess currer 100 meters en 90 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Northern short-tailed shrew cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

Ina tartaruga circa 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Northern short-tailed shrew circa 4 km/h (2,5 mph)

Ina persuna che va a pe circa 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

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Fatgs

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

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Blarina brevicauda
Gruppa: Mammifers tissientads
Famiglia: Soricidae2
Urden: Eulipotyphla
Continents: America dal Nord
Poppins: 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
Co ch'i va ad el en la natira: Least Concern1
Privel per umans: 1 / 5: Lev3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Northern short-tailed shrew (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Blarina brevicauda (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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