The masked shrew displays characters typical of all shrews. The slender, cylindrical body has a short, velvety, directionless fur. The long, tapered head ends in a flexible, tubular snout, with the ...

Three species account for most of the shrews living around the Salish Sea: the masked shrew (Sorex cinereus), the dusky or montane shrew (Sorex monticolus) and the vagrant or wandering shrew ...

A pygmy shrew kept in captivity provides some notion of the energy requirements of the species. It consumed parts of the bodies of 20 masked shrews, one white-footed mouse, one red-backed vole, one ...