Credit: California Academy of Sciences/Cover Images The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the ...

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According to the University of California, Berkeley, the Mount Lyell shrew was the only California mammal known to science ...

Rare California Rodent Caught On Film For First Time. The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the ...

The shrew is found only in the Eastern Sierra Nevada ... To catch the shrews, the team set up 150 pitfall traps baited with worms and cat food, which they checked every two hours to ensure the ...

Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic ...

The rare Mount Lyell shrew was recently photographed for the ... The trio set up traps filled with cat food and mealworms in the desert of the Eastern Sierra and caught five Lyells as well as ...

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‘The shrew hasn’t been trapped or recorded in ... plastic cups in them to make pitfalls and filled the cups with cat food. And it seems cat food is on the menu for Mount Lyell shrews, as ...

Not a single Mount Lyell shrew had ever been photographed alive ... noticing the mammals’ habit of stashing food away for later or taking micronaps. Photographing live animals, particularly ...

The shrew hasn’t been trapped or recorded in two ... just plastic cups,” Subramanyan said — filled with cat food and mealworms. They captured two shrews within the first two hours.