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- Crawfords_gray_shrew abstract "Crawford's gray shrew, Notiosorex crawfordi, also known as the desert shrew, is a small shrew found in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is a member of the order Soricomorpha and the family Soricidae. It is was the only known member of the genus Notiosorex until two species, N. villai distributed in Tamaulipas, Mexico, and N. evotis distributed along the northwest coast of Mexico, were named. A fourth distinct species, N. cockrumi, was discovered in Arizona and named in 2004.Crawford's gray shrew is one of the smallest desert mammals and one of the world's smallest homeotherms. When fully grown, it will only grow to a size of about 1.5 to 2 in (3.8 to 5.1 cm) long, half of which is the tail, and it will only grow to a weight of about 3 to 5 g (0.11 to 0.18 oz). It is gray-brown with light gray under parts. The long tail is gray with it being lighter underneath. It has small, but relatively prominent, ears.A Crawford's gray shrew is born during the summer months to a litter size of three to six. When born, it is naked, pink and is about the same size as a honeybee. It grows rapidly and reaches its adult size in about four to five weeks. As a baby, its diet consists of milk the mother produces without the aid of water. After two to three weeks, its diet changes to food brought back to the nest and then regurgitated into the juvenile's mouth. By fall, Crawford's gray shrew is out of the nest and on its own. As an adult, its diet changes from the regurgitated food to intact food it kills itself. Crawford's gray shrew will eat lizards, small mice, and scorpions, but its main food source is a wide variety of arthropods. Since this shrew has a very high rate of metabolism, it will eat up to 75% of its body weight every day, and occasionally its full body weight; this can be dangerous since it can overheat the animal. The heat produced by metabolism and gained from its surrounding environment results in a high risk of overheating.Crawford's gray shrew, unlike most shrews, does not have access to an abundant water supply. To conserve the little water that shrews do absorb, they find shelter to protect them from the harsh external temperatures. Crawford's gray shrew does not construct its own burrows or use the ones made by other animals. Instead, it builds small nests in pack rat houses or under dead agaves.This species also conserves water by being nocturnal, unlike other shrews, which hunt day and night to avoid starvation. Crawford's gray shrew has poor vision, so it uses its highly sensitive ears and long nose to hunt down its prey. It will also use an echolocation, similar to bats, with high-pitched squeaks to locate prey. It will also store food during the night so it will not have to go out during the day. To keep from losing any water from its victims, it will bite off the legs and then crush the prey's head so as not to kill it but to keep it fresh and unable to move.Since water loss is a huge problem for this shrew, it has adapted by reducing two major causes of water loss. While breathing, Crawford's gray shrew inhales air warmed to body temperature and absorbs water vapor from the nasal walls. Exhaled air is cooled as the air is exiting, and the water vapor from the air condenses on the nasal passage. This keeps in more water than if the air were exhaled at body temperature. Water loss is reduced even more through respiration because it takes fewer breaths than other shrews and it has the lowest resting metabolic rate of all shrew species.Because of its diet, the Crawford's gray shrew must expel a large amount of nitrogenous waste from its body, which has a potential for a large loss of water when urinating. However, it is able to reduce water loss from urine, as well, by concentrating urea in the urine. The urine is four times more concentrated than that of a human, thus saving a huge amount of water.Even with all of these adaptations to help it survive in the harsh environment of the desert, it still only lives for a relatively short time. Since it hunts at night, Crawford's Gray Shrew is susceptible to nocturnal hunters, such as snakes and owls. Although it can emit a musky odor that makes it seem less appetizing to mammalian predators, it still lives for only about a year or so in the wild.".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew binomialAuthority Elliott_Coues.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew class Mammal.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew conservationStatus "LC".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew conservationStatusSystem "iucn3.1".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew family Shrew.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew genus Notiosorex.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew kingdom Animal.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew order Soricomorpha.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew phylum Chordate.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew thumbnail DesertShrew23.jpg?width=300.
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- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageLength "6139".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageOutDegree "36".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageRevisionID "604124324".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Agave.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
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- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Arizona.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Arthropod.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fauna_of_Northern_Mexico.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fauna_of_the_Southwestern_United_States.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mammals_of_Mexico.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mammals_of_the_United_States.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Category:Notiosorex.
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- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Desert.
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- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Homeotherm.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Homeothermy.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Honey_bee.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Honeybee.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Mammal.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Metabolism.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Mexico.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Nocturnal.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Nocturnality.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Notiosorex.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Owl.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Pack_rat.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Shrew.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Snake.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Soricidae.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Soricomorpha.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Southwestern_United_States.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Tamaulipas.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Urea.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLink Urine.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLinkText "Crawford's gray shrew".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLinkText "Desert (or Crawford's gray) shrew".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sorex (Notiosorex) crawfordi".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew wikiPageWikiLinkText "desert shrew".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew binomial "Notiosorex crawfordi".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew classis "Mammalia".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew familia Shrew.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew familia Soricidae.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew genus "Notiosorex".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew hasPhotoCollection Crawfords_gray_shrew.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew name "Crawford's gray shrew".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew ordo Soricomorpha.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew phylum Chordata.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew phylum Chordate.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew rangeMap "Crawford's Gray Shrew area.png".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew rangeMapCaption "Crawford's gray shrew range".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew regnum "Animalia".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew species "N. crawfordi".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew status "LC".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew statusSystem "iucn3.1".
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- Crawfords_gray_shrew subject Category:Fauna_of_Northern_Mexico.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew subject Category:Fauna_of_the_Southwestern_United_States.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew subject Category:Mammals_of_Mexico.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew subject Category:Mammals_of_the_United_States.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew subject Category:Notiosorex.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew hypernym Shrew.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew type Animal.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew type Eukaryote.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew type Mammal.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew type Species.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew type Thing.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew type Q19088.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew type Q729.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew type Q7377.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew comment "Crawford's gray shrew, Notiosorex crawfordi, also known as the desert shrew, is a small shrew found in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is a member of the order Soricomorpha and the family Soricidae. It is was the only known member of the genus Notiosorex until two species, N. villai distributed in Tamaulipas, Mexico, and N. evotis distributed along the northwest coast of Mexico, were named. A fourth distinct species, N.".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew label "Crawford's gray shrew".
- Crawfords_gray_shrew sameAs Notiosorex_crawfordi.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew sameAs Musaranya_del_desert.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew sameAs Notiosorex_crawfordi.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew sameAs Notiosorex_crawfordi.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew sameAs حشرهخوار_خاکستری_کرافورد.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew sameAs Aavikkopäästäinen.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew sameAs Musaraigne_du_désert.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew sameAs 크로퍼드회색땃쥐.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew sameAs Grijze_woestijnspitsmuis.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew sameAs m.054k54.
- Crawfords_gray_shrew sameAs Notiosorex_crawfordi.