including the vagrant shrew, Merriam's shrew, Mount Lyell shrew and the montane shrew. Because the shrew species looked so similar, they ran genetics at the California Academy of Sciences to ...

Small, soft seeds may form part of the winter diet. A masked shrew requires large quantities of food each day, and one kept in captivity ate 3.3 times its own body weight in a 24 hour period. Merriam ...