short-tailed shrew

American  

noun

1. a grayish-black shrew, Blarina brevicauda, common in eastern North America, that has a tail less than half the length of the body.

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short-tailed shrew

For example, the northern short-tailed shrew weighs roughly the same amount as the greater horseshoe bat.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023

Another venomous mammal among the solenodon’s relatives, the northern short-tailed shrew, also has kallikreins in its venom.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2019

On several occasions when a short-tailed shrew was caught in the same pitfall with ant-eating frogs, it was found to have killed and eaten them.

From Field Study of Kansas Ant-Eating Frog by Fitch, Henry S.

Between July 21 and August 27 a total of two hundred and eighty-five mouse traps set in the upland forest took on the first nights one short-tailed shrew and thirty northern white-footed mice.

From The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86 by Dice, Lee Raymond

More voles and a short-tailed shrew were taken on later days.

From The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86 by Dice, Lee Raymond