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IN the Journal of the Society for Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire of June 1945 is a remarkable account by Lady Seton (a keen field naturalist and wife of that well-known observer the late Sir Malcolm Seton) of a movement of the water shrew, Neomys fodiens. In it she tells how she saw large numbers of this little mammal swimming up a small stream in Upper Teesdale in what appeared to be a mass migration. Migration is so exceptional among land mammals, if not marine ones (unlike birds in which it is so usual we may say it is the rule rather than the exception), that any instance is of outstanding interest.
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PITT, F. Mass Movement of the Water Shrew, Neonys Fodiens. Nature 156, 247 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156247a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156247a0