He also had several new shrews and we caught eight different species of these important little animals at this one camp.
The tree shrews are found only in Asia and are one of the most remarkable instances of a superficial resemblance between unrelated animals with similar habits.
Although it is an Insectivore, and a relative of the tiny shrews which live in holes and under logs, it has squirrel-like habits and in appearance is like a squirrel to which it is totally unrelated.
About nine o'clock in the evening we ran our traps with a lantern and besides several mice (Apodemus) found two rare shrews and a new mole (Blarina).
Our traps had yielded three new shrews and a silver mole as well as a number of mice, rats, and meadow voles of species identical with those taken on the Snow Mountain.
Yvette has conquered her feminine repugnance far enough to remove shrews or mice from the traps by releasing the spring and dropping them on to a broad green leaf, but she never touches them.
Although we were only twelve miles from Li-chiang the traps yielded four shrews and one mouse which were new to our collection.
In some (constituting the genus Rhyncocyon) the muzzle is so much prolonged as to resemble a proboscis, whence the name elephant-shrews is sometimes applied to the members of the family.
Although almost as exclusively insectivorous as bats, moles and shrewsdo not, so far as is known, hibernate.
The shrews and moles are all small carnivorous animals, which, because of their size, confine their attacks chiefly to insects.
The shrews are small and mouse-like; certain kinds of them lead a semi-aquatic life.
Corrodopsylla hamiltoni was taken only from the two kinds of shrews (Blarina brevicauda and Cryptotis parva).
Fleas onshrews may have a well-developed host preference.
A high proportion of the skinks examined had scars resembling those inflicted by shrews experimentally confined with skinks in captivity.
Bites inflicted by these two kinds of shrews might be indistinguishable, but because of its larger size, Blarina would seem by far the more formidable enemy.
On subsequent occasions several other captive shrews that were tested, quickly killed and ate skinks that were introduced into their containers.
Some of the shrews taken in extreme southwestern Yukon Territory (11/2 miles south and 3 miles east of Dalton Post) and in extreme northwestern British Columbia (Stonehouse Creek and Mt.
The pallor of some shrews from east-central Alaska (Chatanika River and Salcha River) suggests intergradation with the pale S.
All of the water shrewswere taken in July and early August and at the edge of water in traps baited with rolled oats.
While trapping for shrews I regularly took this species in riparian growth right down to the edge of the water.
The larger streams have bordering growths of alders, willows, and blackberries, inhabited by meadow mice and shrews that are normally absent from the adjacent oak woodland.
The root-worms work insidiously, and the moles and shrews are supposed to attack them and destroy them.
As he came over the crest, in a mob of shrews and smaller mice, he saw a glossy crow just dropping upon him.
The rats had their holes under the buried fragments of wreckage; the mice and shrews had their deep warm tunnels; the owls had nests in hollow trees far away in the forests of the mainland.
There are in the cane fields little insect-eating animals called shrews which, in that country, give off a scent so like that of a skunk that Pazik has hunted them out with his dogs in the night by mistake.
The "doctors" pay as much as two dollars apiece for shrews on urgent occasions, and, mixing their bodies with herbs and roots, form a concoction which they claim will ward off hydrophobia.
At some future time one will not believe that the Bats and Shrews were once placed next to the Apes.
The dental formula of the Bats resembles too so strikingly that of the Shrews that a rusty-grown prejudice can alone place the former in the neighbourhood of the Apes.
Their close relation, however, with the Shrews and Rodents assigns them a lower rank.
From the state of puberty until the development of the faculty of understanding; the condition of the Shrews and Bats, the repetition of Insects.
And so this long procession of shrews passes before us, scolding and gibbering and dispensing miseries.
This line of thought would carry me back over more ages than I care to traverse; I am content with knowing that the shrews are in a minority, and that the majority of my countrywomen are sweet and benign.
They recalled a similar scene in an elk-forest of distant Norway; but never in Spanish sierras have we noticed water-shrews except on this occasion.
But it isn't because the shrews wouldn't be afraid if the cats got after them, but because cats always let shrews alone.
When two Mr. Shrews meet there's pretty sure to be trouble.
The shrews hunt spiders and hundred-legged worms and larvae in holes and crannies of the soil or beneath leaves of ground plants and old logs.
MOLE'S PAWS AND HOW HE WORKS THEM But while the shrews can get around so much faster above ground the moles are the most remarkable travellers under ground.
It's a queer thing how systematic and prompt shrews and moles are in business.
This little book also gives pictures of the different kinds of shrews in the United States, and a lot of detail about them and their little paws and their noses and their tails.
Like the moles the shrews are found all over the Northern Hemisphere.
It's a very common superstition among English country folk that shrewsalways drop dead if they attempt to cross a road.
The Shrewsand the Moles are related in the same way that you and Happy Jack Squirrel are related.
Now just remember that the Shrews and the Moles belong to the order of Insectivora, meaning eaters of insects, and are the only two families in that order.
Shrews and Moles; it is also stated to have the ostrich-like way of concealing its head in a crevice, "apparently thinking itself then secure.
The true Shrews have a much wider range than other families of the present order.
In the museum at Cahors the iron cage in which shrews were dipped is still shown.
The old English cucking-stool for shrews is well known; it was common abroad also, with some customs peculiarly foreign.
Shrews were present on the Reservation but were not trapped often enough to permit study.
The shrews are very widely distributed, being found over North America and the whole of the eastern hemisphere except Australia.
This suborder includes all the ordinary Insectivora, such as moles, shrews and hedgehogs.
In the Shrews (Soricidae) there is no zygomatic arch; the tympanic is ring-like, and the angle of the mandible is very prominent.
The neural spines except in the case of the axis are generally very small and in the Shrews and Moles the neural arches are exceedingly slender.
In the Shrews the scapula is long and narrow, and has a well-marked spine, whose end bifurcates, forming the acromion and metacromion.
Revision of the shrews of the American genera Blarina and Notiosorex.
A taxonomic review of the American long-tailed shrews (Genus Sorex and Microsorex).
The black snake--for such he was called, in spite of his colour being brown--had an undiscriminating appetite for moles and shrews alike.
He had learned, of course, that shrews were averse to being swallowed, and that they both could and would put up a stiff fight against such consummation.
North of Haines, Alaska, size of shrews decreases in a short distance across a narrow intergradational zone between alascensis and obscurus.
California, has been applied to wandering shrews from western Nevada, northeastern California and southern Oregon.
Synopsis of the American shrews of the genus Sorex.
The very largest of theseshrews live along the coast of northwestern California.
In view of the similarity of shrews from Cypress Hills to typical S.
Therefore the shrews were able to traverse the Great Basin, while the Sierran red squirrels were of necessity derived from the coastal population.
These Great Basin shrews dwell in hydrosere communities as do their Rocky Mountain counterparts.
Great Basin closely resemble Rocky Mountain shrews but differ markedly from the large endemic subspecies of the Pacific Coast.
The name dobsoni was based upon shrews from a place where lowland and highland forms occur almost together with only a slight amount of intergradation.
It is true, as Anderson and Rand say, that the shrews from Cypress Hills are hardly separable from those from, say, Waterton Lakes Park.
Differentiation in shrews of the tidal marshes of the San Francisco Bay region.
The shrews so far discussed inhabit forests in a region of high rainfall and a minimum of seasonal fluctuation in temperature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrews" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
