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

Oh to be a Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew stumbling upon a baited camera trap! It would be like taking a walk around your neighborhood and coming across a mountain of your favorite treat -- free for the taking in exchange for a commemorative photo. 📸 This little shrew found itself caught by the lens of one of 36 camera traps set by our refuge staff at Kern National Wildlife Refuge as it dined on mealworms. Not much is known about this endangered subspecies of ornate shrew that calls California's