A pygmy shrew is actually the smallest mammal alive as of 2013.

The pygmy shrew survives by eating the insects and spiders that live in the heather.

Predators of the American pygmy shrew include hawks, owls, snakes and domestic cats.

Pygmy Shrew may refer to one of various species of shrews:

Protected wildlife include moose, black bears, pygmy shrews, bald eagles and loons.

Non-avian fauna includes pygmy shrews, otters and grey seals.

Mammals include species from the ever present white-tailed deer to the more elusive coyote and the diminutive pygmy shrew.

Shrews are also fairly common, and the smallest, the pygmy shrew, is one of the smallest mammals in the world.

Gruven and his band start a landslide, killing and burying many pygmy shrews.

It is also inhabited by the Etruscan Pygmy Shrew, the smallest mammal by mass.

Other resident mammals include stoats, common shrews, pygmy shrews, wood mice and short-tailed voles.

West African pygmy shrew (C. obscurior)

Egyptian pygmy shrew (C. religiosa)

Kashmir pygmy shrew (S. planiceps)

American pygmy shrew (S. hoyi)

Caucasian pygmy shrew (S. volnuchini)

Eurasian pygmy shrew (S. minutus)

Though none of the shrew species are endangered the tiny pygmy shrew has been called the "rarest shrew in Illinois."

The genetic structure of the population further showed that the entire Irish population of the Eurasian pygmy shrew had originated from a single founder event.

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Madagascan Pygmy Shrew (S. madagascariensis)

Malayan Pygmy Shrew (S. malayanus)

Active throughout the day and night, the Eurasian pygmy shrew lives in undergrowth and leaf litter and lives off small insects and invertebrates.

The Kashmir pygmy shrew (Sorex planiceps) is a species of mammal in the Soricidae family.

As well, Elk Island plays host to both the largest and the smallest terrestrial mammals in North America, the wood bison and pygmy shrew respectively.