Some winter activity takes place on or in the soil, under the insulating snow cover. Short-tailed shrews push their way through the leaf mold by day or move about on top of the ground at night during ...

The masked shrew displays characters typical of all shrews. The slender, cylindrical body has a short, velvety, directionless fur. The long, tapered head ends in a flexible, tubular snout, with the ...

Shrews often prefer habitats that provide plenty of ground cover, such as gardens, abandoned burrows, tree cavities, and human-made structures. Although they tend to keep to themselves ...