Heart rate? 1,500 beats per minute.
Breathing? 600 times a minute.
It eats twice its body weight daily just to stay alive.
Clicks to hunt. Whiskers as radar.
Jumps, darts, devours — all in the blink of an eye.
It may only live two years, but in that time, it's a lightning bolt with teeth.
Tiny. Fierce. Unstoppable.
I wanted one of these as a pet, but the guide book I got from the library on taming shrews was not helpful.
It was pretty funny though.
1.8 grams? That cute thing should float quite well!
What are you suggesting should happen to it?!
All I'm saying is that it can survive trouble with the mob just fine. Ain't no sleeping with the fishes for this rodent!
"When I'm a small prey mammal and I've evolved to survive the barren rocky landscape by optimizing into a tan egg"
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