Giant Mexican Shrew

Megasorex gigas

The Giant Mexican Shrew is the largest shrew in North America and the sole member of its genus, found only in tropical dry forests of western Mexico. Its large size relative to other shrews may reflect adaptation to a drier, more unpredictable food environment where larger prey items are worth pursuing. It inhabits rocky ground in tropical dry forest.

Habitat

Tropical dry forests and rocky hillsides of western Mexico

Diet

Large insects, centipedes, scorpions, and small vertebrates

How common

Rare

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