Common shrews are one of Britain's and northern Europe's most abundant small mammals. With an insatiable appetite for insects and worms, these tiny terrors can devour up to their own body weight in a single day.
Common Shrews and Man
Shrews are useful members of the wild mammal community because they eat invertebrates, many of which are regarded as pests by man.
Caenolestes
(Common shrew
opossums)
Gray-bellied Caenolestid (C. caniventer) Â- Andean Caenolestid (C. condorensis) Â- Northern Caenolestid (C. convelatus) Â- Dusky Caenolestid (C. fuliginosus) ...
Montane shrews are among the most common shrews, and do well in a variety of moist habitats: thick, grassy areas near streams or rivers; meadows; thickets of willow and alder; spruce-fir forests; and alpine tundra.
Mammals have a wide range of body sizes. The common shrew weighs only three grams, while the blue whale weighs 150 tons! We also vary in the way we get around: from flying, swimming, and running to swinging through trees and burrowing.
Brainier?
A nervous and active animal, related to the mall, it has a musky odor. The common shrew or masked shrew has a heart beat that is considerably faster than that of a hummingbird at 800 beats per minute, and is a prodigious eater and vicious fighter.
Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Common shrew (Sorex araneus)
Common toad (Bufo bufo)
Common gull (Larus canus)
European polecat (Mustela putorius)
Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) ...
The common shrews of the Northern Hemisphere belong to the red-toothed genus Sorex, with many species in North America and a few in Europe and Asia.
 See also: Shrew, Weasel, Pygmy Shrew, Mouse, Stoat
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