🐭🧠 The common #shrew is a tiny #vertebrate with a bizarre survival strategy called Dehnel’s phenomenon. To save #energy during lean #winter months, these #animals physically shrink their skulls and #brains, only to regrow them when #spring arrives.
👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/common-shrew-shrink
#neuroscience #evolution #nature #science #mammals #research #discovery #education
In Southern #Ethiopia a small #shrew was found in the bottom of a pitfall trap. The tiny #mammal was analyzed being new to science and representing a #newspecies. It indicates that the #biodiversity is far away from being well explored and that not only microscopic invertebrates, but even very small mammals are still to discover. #Biodiversityresearch is important for an understanding of our environments in times of #globalwarming.
© Text © #StefanFWirth 2026
How small #mammals shrink their brains to survive the cold https://phys.org/news/2026-01-small-mammals-brains-survive-cold.html
Genomic comparisons shed light on the adaptive basis of brain size plasticity and chromosomal instability in the Eurasian common shrew https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msag006/8419347
"This allows species such as the common #shrew to reduce the size of their brain, skull and other organs by up to 30% during the winter to save energy. In the spring, these tissues regenerate—an exceptional example of physiological plasticity."
Kind Animals Cards – Spring and Summer for Animals
From all sides. From the right and from the left. Hello! Hello! And some smiles. These are kind animals. Here with you and me again for a second. Waving. Sitting on the grass. On such a cheerful little hill.
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/11/kind-animals-cards-spring-and-summer.html
#mole #grasshopper #skylark #shrew #rabbit #crane #friends #kindanimals #summer #spring #app #visualbasic #vba #countryside #stories #pictures #animals
#haiku by long time contributor, Marilyn Ward, of Lincolnshire, UK. #poetry #hawk #micropoetry #poetrylovers #shrew #poetrycommunity #lincolnshire #autumn
"Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN"
🎄🔒 Oh, the tragedy! A whole article devoted to a creature that’s now as inaccessible as this webpage. Seems like the 403 error is the shrew’s final act of revenge! 🐭🚫
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-memory-of-the-christmas-island-shrew/ #403Error #Shrew #Revenge #InaccessibleWebpage #TechHumor #WebSecurity #HackerNews #ngated
A water shrew catching some dinner
Did you know: water shrews are venomous
Inktober day 6: Pierce
#Moontober day 2 of 16. Prompt: poisonous / venomous A venomous water shrew covered in poisonous fool's cone cap mushrooms 🍄🐹 #inktober #artober #drawtober #halloween #shrew #mushroom #creature #art #darkart #horrorart #horror #creepy #metalsky #metalart #spooky
#Henipavirus in Northern Short-Tailed #Shrew, #Alabama, #USA, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/07/henipavirus-in-northern-short-tailed.html
He is finished! Shrew on a date.
His name is Franz Shrewbert.
The pirates off the coast of Northymbra can be very shrew'd.
(Painted and sculpted by Michael Lovejoy.)
https://www.oathswornminiatures.co.uk/p/9280243/shrew-pirate-2-small-shrew.html
#BurrowsAndBadgers #Shrew #Pirate #MiniPainting #MiniaturePainting #Skirmish #WarGaming
Still needs some refining and priming and painting but I made this little guy for Federico.
I hadn't done any sculpting for a long time but I really really love it - I definitely need to make more time for it 😊
das #krabbeltierchen das ich von meiner heutigen #AuwaldRunde mitgebracht habe ist etwas größer als sonst und zur abwechslung mal ein säugetier: diese (wühl?)maus. ein wahrhaft wuseliges wesen, nicht einfach abzulichten. reichen die bilder jmd von euch zu erkennen was für eine art das ist?
Scilly shrew – dweller of the abandoned garden
Scilly shrew. It is such a small creature. As a shrew. As a little mouse. Such kind. And, also, good and kind. It does not make a passages underground. And, use what exists, already. Easily, it can live near in a garden nearby. Or, in the field. Lots of places, where this little animal can live.
#little animals #Scillyshrew #shrew #mouse #field #garden #abandonedgarden #yourfriend #summer #bush #highgrass #digitalart #drawing #moss #mole
Bestial Human Shrew
Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Colin Chapman
Although small and rodentine in appearance, bestial human shrews are actually fierce, voracious and hyperactive omnivores armed with a mouthful of sharp teeth, poisonous saliva (Type A, paralysis), and a decided preference for meat.
Watch a video intro of this new book at RPG Overviews on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmR1zStcU38
#shrew #shrewman #mammal #rodent #beast #bestial #manimal #RPG #ttrpg #bestialhuman #characters #noaiart #williammcausland #wasteland #mutantepoch #apocalyptic #expansionrules #postapocalyptic #themutantepoch #outlandsystem #outlandarts #mutants #mutant #epoch #inkartist #Kamloopsartist #apocalyptic #fallout like #gammaworld #humanoidanimal #roleplayinggame #indiegame #tiny
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#Henipavirus in Northern Short-Tailed #Shrew, Alabama, USA
Volume 31, Number 2—February 2025
Introducing the Mount Lyell shrew, the only known California mammal never photographed alive, until now. Three young scientists caught five of the tiny shrews in their pitfall traps overnight (all were quickly released). The furry creatures are less than 4in long, and weigh only a gram and a half – about the same as two paperclips
Photograph: California Academy of Sciences
"Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic portrait that had just been captured".
#shrew #mammal
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/science/mount-lyell-shrew-california-camera-intl-scli/index.html
