Y'all really seemed to find the Northern Short-tailed Shrew — one of the few venomous mammals in the world — very interesting, so here's a video of one in action, accompanied by some more fun facts for you! Most people know of shrews from either the use of the word as an insult or from William Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew, but these tiny critters are super interesting. The southern Appalachians are a hotspot for shrew diversity in North America and are cousins to another misunders
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This juvenile Northern Short-tailed shrew was found and subsequently rescued from a homeowner's pool. They acted swiftly and got this little fellow into care. Once warmed and hydrated, this patient was offered mealworms and began eating voraciously! Shrews have an extremely high metabolism, and eat three times their body weight in food each day. As the only venomous mammal in North America, they subdue their prey with a neurotoxic bite (though fatal to the insects and worms they eat, it is not d
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