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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Northern Short Tailed Shrew

For Students 4th - 8th
Northern Short-tailed Shrews have poisonous saliva. This enables them to kill mice and larger prey and paralyze invertebrates such as snails and store them alive for later eating. Learn more about the Blarina brevicauda, more commonly...