Talk:Shrew

message: Should be some cross-reference to the insulting human meaning (Taming of the Shrew)... AnonMoos 18:44, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: hear, hear!  IMO 'shrew' is used in English far more often with this meaning in mind than with regard to the biological species.  --Marlow4 21:42, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Other meaning

message: The source article echolocating shrew is barely a stub. It should be merged into shrew as a new section. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:10, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  proposed merge 

message: Could someone follow the following article - I think it needed to be added and I have no enough expertise to edit Wikipedia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8152000/8152862.stm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.246.247.240 (talk) 12:36, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: new species discovered

message: According to http://www.nwf.org/NationalWildlife/article.cfm?issueID=127&articleID=1684, Shews' "...have the fastest heartbeat (1,200 per minute) ... of any mammal..." Chrisrus (talk) 02:48, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That's unlikely to be true for all shrews, though--there's 400 species of them, some quite specialized. It would be nice if we had some studies that specifically mention that they measured this in some species and found 1200 per minute figure. Ucucha 02:55, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that would be good.  But the clearly better need not be the enemy of the good.  I will google around a bit more.  Chrisrus (talk) 03:04, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Good. Mammalian Species accounts may well have information on this. Ucucha 03:06, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good idea, the disambiguation page for shrew-mouse/mouse shrew. I noticed that New Guinea is one of the only shrewless places, and the only place you can find shrew-mice.  I'm noticing that there are many results for "fastest metabolism shrew".  I'll try to cherry-pick some citable ones, but I'd like to say now that it seems to be a very commonly cited fact in discussions of longevity, and is often tied to mention of their short life spans, which are called among the shortest of all mammals.  Chrisrus (talk) 03:17, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

text: -)82.14.55.102 (talk) 18:21, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shrew superlatives 

message: This article stayui
tes shrews are not rodents, but are closely more related to voles. The article on voles states voles are themselves rodents. It doesn't make sense. I think most people identify mice, moles, voles, and shrews, along with other animals, as rodents.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.181.43.152 (talk) 00:55, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It says "moles", not "voles".  Chrisrus (talk) 06:44, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  rodent? 

message: I think this particular image of the (seemingly still alive but severely injured) trapped shrew normalizes killing those animals in this fashion, and it also seems to look as though it was not painful, in this particular picture. I think it is necessary to comment on what exactly is happening in this picture, in the caption. The entry on traps should be linked to. 
(I am not going to do this because I'm not a native speaker and it would have to be re-written / I don't want to mess with the article.)
--77.12.213.155 (talk) 14:05, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  trapped animal image