So many new shrews have been found on one island that researchers began hunting for Latin words meaning “ordinary'
State University biologist Jake Esselstyn and his colleagues began hunting for Latin words meaning “ordinary.”
The 101-page paper will be “super valuable for all current and future students of mammal biodiversity,” said Nathan S. Upham, assistant research professor at Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences and lead creator of the American Society of Mammalogists' online Mammal Diversity Database. Esselstyn led a decade of trips to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to collect the animals, which are relatives of hedgehogs and moles. All weighed less than a AA battery, ranging from about 3 grams — just over one-tenth of an ounce, or about the weight of a pingpong ball — to about 24 grams . The largest species had bodies averaging 95 millimeters, or about 3.7 inches long.
For this paper, they examined 1,368 shrews, more than 90% of them collected by Esselstyn's group, which trapped the animals on a dozen mountain sites and two in the lowlands of Sulawesi.
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