Survival of the Less-fit: A Least Shrew (Mammalia, Soricidae, Cryptotis parvus) Survives a Separated Leg Fracture in the Wild

Neal Woodman

doi:10.7589/2012-08-218

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Neal Woodman^1,*

¹1 US Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smiths

^* Corresponding author (email: woodmann@ si.edu)

Abstract

X-rays of the deformed femur of a least shrew (Cryptotis parvus) revealed an ossified callus enclosing a greatly displaced, spiral fracture. Based on models of fracture healing, this shrew lived for at least 28 days postfracture. Survival of major fractures in the wild may not be uncommon.

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Neal Woodman "Survival of the Less-fit: A Least Shrew (Mammalia, Soricidae, Cryptotis parvus) Survives a Separated Leg Fracture in the Wild," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 49(3), 735-737, (1 July 2013). https://doi.org/10.7589/2012-08-218

Received: 27 August 2012; Accepted: 1 November 2012; Published: 1 July 2013

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