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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Southeastern Shrew

For Students 4th - 8th
In spite of its widespread distribution, the Southeastern Shrew remained very poorly known until a new trapping method, the pitfall trap, came into use in the 1970s and 1980s. Pitfall traps are traps sunk into the ground: small mammals...