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•••«•♦«»# <br />SHREWS 1 2 3 <br />Masked Shrew <br />{Sorex cinereus) <br />Gray brown and mouselike, masked and other shrews must consume at least <br />their own weight in small animals and Insects daily to keep their hearts <br />beating more than 1200 times/minute (2"-2 1/2") <br />Arctic Shrew <br />(Sorex a retie us) <br />Dull brown in the summer, their winter coat is tricolored with a dark brewn <br />back, light brown sides, and a lighter belly (2 3/4"-3") <br />Pigmy Shrew <br />{Mierosorex hoyi) <br />Minnesota's smallest mammal, the pygmy shrew weighs about as much as a <br />dime (2"-2 1/2") <br />Shorttail Shrew r c u <br />{Blarina brevieauda) <br />Lead-colored with no external ears and very small eyes, the saliva of this <br />shrew is poisonous (3"-4")