Talk:Ornate shrew

A fact from Ornate shrew appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 February 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the tail of the ornate shrew is bicolored?

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ref

{{harv|Wilson|2009|p=}} {{cite book|ref=harv|last1=Kays|first1=Roland W.|last2=Wilson|first2=Don E.|title=Mammals of North America: (Second Edition)|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YjIIRZwbWIEC&pg=PA28|date=9 November 2009|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=1-4008-3350-7}} size 80-110mm, 28-46mm

Merriam original paper

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/164196#page/87/mode/1up

The Naming of the Shrew

So how is it that a tiny, slate-gray, blazingly fast, and sharp-toothed (ask my wife) animal such as this comes to be named "Ornate". Surely this is the most common question people have when they learn the name of our local (SoCal) shrew and I think it should be addressed here. Yes, I'll do it if I can figure it out, but surely someone more knowledgeable than I am already knows the answer... FatBear1 (talk) 04:37, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]