Shrew
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...animals, such as mice, as well as other shrews. A belief that the shrews bite is poisonous was dismissed for years as a folk tale, but has since been substantiated: the saliva of at least one species of shrew is lethal to mice and can cause considerable...