shrews

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Elephant-shrews are altricial animals, meaning that the young require nourishment for a time after birth.

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  • From tiny shrews, tenrecs accustomed to the dark. —  Frans Lanting's lyrical nature photos
  • These three untamed shrews were, however, the exception rather than the rule. —  Sex with Kings Eleanor Herman
  • They were stoats and shrews, and Laquatus cursed the fates that supplied him with such diminutive foes. —  VANCE MOORE
  • She has also butchered mice and at least one nest of shrews, and there have been a few birds snapped out of the air. —  Asimov's SF, July 2007
  • Other than preserving the Bald Eagle from idiot hunters, what purpose was served in saving tree frogs, shrews, doves, and other species from presumed extinction? —  INSIGHT on Freedom
 

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