Y'all really seemed to find the Northern Short-tailed Shrew — one of the few venomous mammals in the world — very interesting, so here's a video of one in action, accompanied by some more fun facts for you! Most people know of shrews from either the use of the word as an insult or from William Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew, but these tiny critters are super interesting. The southern Appalachians are a hotspot for shrew diversity in North America and are cousins to another misunders

The vole and the shrew! 🥰🙈 Did you know common shrews are always hungry and need to eat 80-90% of their body weight each day just to survive. No wonder this little shrew is desperate to beat the vole to the food! 🎥 Neil Shaw #Springwatch 💚 | BBC Springwatch