Pygmy Shrew
08 Jul 2015
Caught a 'pygmy shrew' in one of our small mammal traps today. It really was tiny: the body couldn't have been more than 50mm, though the tail was almost as long again. Deserves it's Latin specific name of 'minutus'.
Jeremy
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