Eurasian water shrew
The Eurasian water shrew is a small, dark mammal that lives close to fresh water across northern Europe and Asia. It is one of the few venomous mammals, and it uses its venom to paralyse the prey it catches in the water.1

Indlela yokusiqaphela
- Short, dark greyish-black fur on the head, back and sides1
- Dirty white underparts, sharply separated from the darker back1
- A white spot just behind the eye, and often another near the small ear1
- Black nose and a long, tapering snout1
- Sharp teeth tipped with red, and a slender tail with a keel of short white hairs underneath1
Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba
Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.
Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?
Its saliva contains a neurotoxic venom, which attacks the nerves. It delivers this venom at the base of the skull of its prey, and the venom paralyses prey even when the prey is larger than the shrew. Tests on field voles showed the venom is lethal at a minimum dose of 15 mg per kg of body weight.1
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: KuthambileNjengokuhlatywa yinyosi okanye ngaphantsi. Phantse asinangozi ebantwini.Hantaviruses have been detected in shrews in Hungary and Poland, which raises public health concerns, although how the virus spreads is largely unknown.1
Senza ntoni xa soyika?
Its venom is thought to immobilise organisms that may threaten it.1
Ukuba siyaluma
- Hlamba inxeba kakuhle kwaye ufumane uncedo lwezonyango.
Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala
Hlala ukhuselekile
- Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
- Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
- Ukuba siyakuluma: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.
Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
Sinzima kangakanani?
ubude obulingana neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-3 zilandelelana
silula kangangokuba ubungayi kusiva esandleni sakho
singagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-90 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)U-Eurasian water shrew mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?
Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.
Sikhawuleza kangakanani?
Iinyaniso
It is one of the few venomous mammals. Its venom comes from glands at the base of its lower front teeth, and grooves along the teeth channel the venom into the bite.1
Its teeth are tipped with red because of deposits of iron, which harden the enamel of the tips.1
It can dive up to two metres underwater and stay under for about twenty seconds before it must surface to breathe.1
Its short fur holds air, so its skin stays dry while it swims.1
It has a home range of about 500 square metres, but when foraging on land it can travel up to 3 km.1
Kwiingcali zetyhefu
- Igama lenzululwazi
- Neomys fodiens
- Iqela
- Izilwanyana ezincancisayo ezinetyhefu
- Usapho
- Soricidae2
- Ucwangco
- Eulipotyphla
- Amazwekazi
- IYurophu, IAsiya
- Iintsana
- Litters of four to eight or more young are born after a 24-day gestation period, and females can have one or two litters a year.1
- Ixesha lobomi
- malunga neminyaka eyi-31
- Imeko yaso endle
- Least concern1
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 1 / 5: Kuthambile3
Apho iinyaniso zivela khona
- Eurasian water shrew (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Neomys fodiens (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
- Venom Wiki: inqanaba lengozi, ubungakanani obuqhelekileyo noqikelelo lwesantya zezethu. Bona indlela esizifumana ngayo: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.
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