This juvenile Northern Short-tailed shrew was found and subsequently rescued from a homeowner's pool. They acted swiftly and got this little fellow into care. Once warmed and hydrated, this patient was offered mealworms and began eating voraciously! Shrews have an extremely high metabolism, and eat three times their body weight in food each day. As the only venomous mammal in North America, they subdue their prey with a neurotoxic bite (though fatal to the insects and worms they eat, it is not d

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