title: Shrew (disambiguation)
text: # Shrew (disambiguation)
  
  Shrew may refer to:
  
  ## Animals
  
  * Shrew (family Soricidae)
  * Treeshrew (order Scandentia), native to Southeast Asia
  * Elephant shrew (family Macroscelididae), native to Africa
  * Otter shrew (subfamily Potamogalinae), native to Africa
  * West Indies shrew (genus Nesophontes), native to Caribbean islands (Extinct)
  
  ## Literature
  
  * Shrew (stock character), a difficult woman
  * The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, in which the word refers to a difficult woman.
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * The Shrews, fictional characters in the animated series The Animals of Farthing Wood
  * Shrew, a name originally proposed for the British fighter airplane Supermarine Spitfire
  * The Killer Shrews, a 1959 science fiction film directed by Ray Kellogg and also featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
  * "The Shrew", a song by Beirut from their 2009 album March of the Zapotec
  