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Crocidura hirta |
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Petite Crocidure Rouge |
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Lesser Red Musk Shrew |
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Measures between 13 and 15 cm (with a tail of 5 cm) and weighs 20 g. Brownish-fawn on the upperparts and slightly lighter on the underparts. Musk shrews have a long, thin and tapered snout covered with sensorial hairs (vibrissae). Eyes are small and ears are round. Tail is sparsely covered with prominent vibrissae. |
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Forests, savannah, plains. |
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Musk shrews have a fast metabolism and ingest, per day, a quantity equivalent to the double of their mass. Crocidura hirta is mostly nocturnal but also active at dawn and at dusk. Musk shrews are very active, constantly moving their snouts to search for food in the ground. Live solitary and actively defend their territories.
Live for about 18 months. |
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Invertebrates (including worms), small rodents. Also eat part of their excrements. |
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After a gestation period of 20 days, females give birth to a litter of 2 to 5 young. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
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