The masked shrew displays characters typical of all shrews. The slender, cylindrical body has a short, velvety, directionless fur. Skip to main content Skip to footer content. ... 1932. A pair of long ...

The study, published in The American Naturalist, found that the masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) reduces its body mass by 13% in the colder months; the creature then grows larger in spring when ...

Weighing less than a nickel, a shrew can eat 7 pounds of slugs and insects in a year!

The study, published in the May 2025 issue of The American Naturalist, found that the masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) reduces its body mass by 13 percent in the colder months; the creature then ...

That means the shrew pictured also could be Sorex cinereus, the masked shrew, or Sorex obscurus, the dusky shrew. The vagrant shrew is about four inches long, the most widespread of the native ...

The study, published in the May 2025 issue of The American Naturalist, found that the masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) reduces its body mass by 13 percent in the colder months; ...

The masked shrew or common shrew (Sorex cinereus) is the most widely distributed shrew found in North America and the common shrew (Sorex araneus) is commonly found in the U.K.

Even astute biologists confuse the pygmy shrew with the abundant masked shrew which it closely resembles, and positive identification in the field is difficult. In hand, the pygmy shrew, which ...