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The Filming of the Shrew (VIDEO)

Staff photographer Ari van den Akker just captured this video of a Northern Short-tailed Shrew tunneling under the thistle feeder outside the Discovery Room at Gilsland Farm. She reports:

These shrews are one of very few mammals that are venomous — an adaptation that allows them to kill prey larger than themselves. They also use echolocation to hunt and move around.