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Mar 13, 2021Liked by Amy Jean Porter

Thank you for this! The snow JUST thawed where I am in VT and I have noticed the remains of their little shrew paths and now I know!

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Mar 12, 2021Liked by Amy Jean Porter

You just be sent me down a rabbit hole, er, shrew tunnel! I hadn’t thought much about shrews. My mum in law had a cat that delighted in depositing them on the porch. He would drool profusely after “playing” with one, a by product of the toxin.

Oregon is home to ten kinds of shrews. Two interesting variants: Preble’s Shrew, which live in our high desert sage lands, and the Pacific Water Shrew—a shrew that swims!

Thanks for the conga line of mom and babies. I’ll be watching it on repeat all day while I procrastinate about grading papers.

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