D.A. Johnson Lawrence J. Blus 1969 <div class="abstract-container abstract-info" data-ajax="false" data-v-66859b04="" data-v-0c2abaf1=""><div class="abstract" data-v-66859b04=""><div data-v-66859b04="">A nursing female short-tailed shrew (<i>Blarina brevicauda</i>) adopted a nestling house mouse (<i>Mus musculus</i>). The mouse was observed in the nest with the female and her litter of shrews three days after it was introduced into the aluminum box containing the shrews, but it was found dead in the nest four days later.</div></div></div> application/pdf 10.2307/2423993 en University of Notre Dame Adoption of a nestling house mouse by a female short-tailed shrew article