As a general appearance indicates, the short-tailed shrew is more fossorial than other shrews, tunneling extensively, and to depths of 50 cm (20 in). Within the interwoven maze of tunnels that ...

The nest, made of plant fibers and 7.6-12.7 cm (3-5 in) in diameter, may be in decaying logs, stumps, the burrows of other mammals, or in the 19 mm (0.75 in) diameter tunnels the masked shrew digs in ...