The newborn young are pink, hairless, 22 mm (0.9 in) in length, and weigh slightly more than 1 g (0.04 oz). They develop fur by day 14, and their eyes open at day 18-20. At this time the young shrews ...

With a voracious appetite for insects, a long snout, and beady little eyes, the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew is one intriguing mammal. Today, 95 percent of its former one-million-acre wetland and ...