[lit-ideas] The girls were mistaken

  • From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 15:36:09 -0700

“Although its external appearance is generally that of a long-nosed mouse, a 
shrew is not a rodent <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodent>, as mice are. It 
is in fact a much closer relative of hedgehogs 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehogs> and moles, and related to rodents 
only in that both belong to the Boreoeutheria 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreoeutheria> Magnorder 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnorder> (along with humans, monkeys 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primates>, cats, dogs 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivora>, horses, rhinos 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perissodactyla>, cows, pigs, whales 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artiodactyla>, bats 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bats> and others). Shrews have sharp, spike-like 
teeth, not the familiar gnawing front incisor teeth of rodents.”

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