#Etruscan shrew
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Animal of the Day!
Etruscan Shrew (Suncus etruscus)
(Photo in Public Domain)
Conservation Status- Least Concern
Habitat- Mediterranean Basin; Southeastern Asia
Size (Weight/Length)- 1.8 g; 50 mm
Diet- Insects; Infant rodents; Reptile eggs
Cool Facts- The Etruscan shrew is the smallest living mammal based on weight. These tiny shrews are on a clock from the minute they start their day. Eating twice their body weight in insects daily, these shrews have to maintain enough energy to avoid hypothermia. The Etruscan shrew depends on touch while finding food, scurrying through underbrush in search of worms and grasshoppers. Males and females pair in the spring or fall to raise a family. A female is pregnant for less than a month and the cubs are weaned by four weeks of age. When mom or dad wants to move their family, they do it in a conga line with a row of cubs biting each other’s tail to prevent them from getting lost.
Rating- 12/10 (Tiny but mighty.)
#animal of the day#animals#mammals#shrew#sunday#june 4#etruscan shrew#biology#science#conservation#the more you know
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Could you make a statement block for the Etruscan Shrew? They are the smallest mammals, the size of and almond, and I think they would make great familiars!
Well howdy-do! I sure can make a shrew! These little guys are known for being swift and hardy, hunting enough bugs to equal 1.5-2x their body weight. They can also hide pretty well.
They are known for being clever so I gave a (relatively) high wisdom and put intelligence a bit below that. Charisma 10 because their baseline cute, and strength of 1 because they could not lift anything bigger than themselves. I mighta coulda put it at 2 but it's not going to make much of a difference.
Anyways I hope I got it right with the 20 minutes of googling I did. Enjoy!
#I love these submissions that are like someone's favorite animal#dnd#dnd 5e#probably useless statblocks#dungeons and dragon 5e#dungeons and dragons fifth edition#Etruscan shrew#shrew#mammal#request#theblurplegirl
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Just found out about the Etruscan Shrew and
What the fuck
How is this creature not popping off on tumblr?
Look at this damn thing
#thank you random youtube quiz for informing me about this incredibly tiny guy#etruscan shrew#it just feels like a natural member of the skrunkly little animals that people on this site are obsessed with#it's the smallest mammal on earth ♡#smartie talks
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Etruscan shrew
By: Jacana Press Agency
From: Simon & Schuster's Guide to Mammals
1982
#etruscan shrew#shrew#eulipotyphlan#mammal#Jacana Press Agency#1982#1980s#Simon & Schuster's Guide to Mammals
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Just a study to check how my new android tablet works 😅 it's drawn by hand and colored on Ibis Paint X!
Reference pic:
Here you are the etruscan shrew, the terror of the garden 😈
#illustration#cute#furry#feral art#feral#feral predator#shrew#etruscan shrew#Suncus etruscus#sketch#doodle#furryart#furry art#smug face#Micro#Tiny#drawing#animal#mammal
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incredible wonderful fantastic creature
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Fact of the Day 11.10.22
The Etruscan shrew is the smallest mammal by mass at approximatly 1.8g.
#FOTD#FactOfTheDay#Etruscan shrew#Kittis hognosed bat is technically smaller (by skull not wingspan) but weighs 2g
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my collection of most smallest animals ...
the smallest mammal by mass: the etruscan shrew
the smallest mammal by length: the bumblebee bat
the smallest deer: the pudu. pictured is the fawn of a southern pudu which is second most to the northern pudu
the smallest cat: the rusty-spotted cat
the smallest dog: the fennec fox
the smallest primate: madame berthe’s mouse lemur
the current second smallest reptile: the nosy hara leaf chameleon. pictured is a juvenile. the nano-chameleon in the same genus is the current smallest
the smallest carnivore: the least weasel
the smallest bovid: the royal antelope. pictured is a fawn
#only snuck in 3 babies but how funny would it be to do the babies of the babies#☆#🐯#juvenile#etruscan shrew (suncus etruscus)#eulipotyphla#bumblebee bat (raseonycteris thonglongyai)#chiroptera#southern pudu (pudu puda)#cervid#rusty-spotted cat (prionailurus rubiginosus)#felid#fennec fox (vulpes zerda)#vulpes#canid#madame berthe’s mouse lemur (microcebus berthae)#primate#nosy hara leaf chameleon (brookesia micra)#reptilia#least weasel (mustela nivalis)#musteloid#royal antelope (neotragus pygmaeus)#bovid
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The Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus) is one of the smallest living land mammals in the world!🤏 It only grows around 1.3 to 2.1 inches (35 to 55 millimeters) long and weighs somewhere between 0.06 and 0.1 ounces (1.8 and 3 grams). The tiny critter lives in forest, shrub, or grassland habitats throughout southern Europe, northern Africa, and parts of Asia. Its diet consists of small insects such as ants. Photo: Photo: Trebol-a, CC-BY-SA-3.0, Wikimedia Commons #AnimalFacts #animals #nature #EtruscanShrew #shrew #SmallAnimals #mammals #dyk #FunFact https://www.instagram.com/p/CeCZUQ9r-tS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Kellää muulla tätä ongelmaa, et ku alkaa kirjottaa Googlen hakuun sanaa "etruskipääsätäinen" ja sit valkkaa Googlen ehottaman hakusanan "etruskipäästäinen" ja painaa enteriä, ni se haku muuttuu englanninkieliseks? Hakupalkissa lukeekin "etruscan shrew" ja kaikki hakutuloksen englantia?
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Heart throb grey pink rose. Beloved by elephants, rock hyraxes, pangolins, platypuses, tenrecs, etruscan shrews, solenodons (of the solenoid family) and manatee-shirts everywhere.
#pink rose#flowers of tumblr#macro photography#original photographers#photographers on tumblr#inner life of flowers#macro flower#flowers on tumblr#pink flower
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me vs having the resting heart rate of the Etruscan shrew
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