For Water Shrews, More Than 3 Hours Between Meals Could be Fatal | Wild Canadian Year

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Published 2017-10-16

It’s eat or die for tiny shrews in Manitoba. They need to eat more than their own weight every day and each fall insects are hard to find

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For Water Shrews, More Than 3 Hours Between Meals Could be Fatal
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All Comments (21)

@jackwhite4214 5 years ago

Here because I saw a cheeky shrew practically hold a guy at gunpoint for a food
@seth1571 5 years ago

Who came here from the hungry shrew video? xD
@jackashmore 5 years ago

Wtf I just a random Russian feeding one right out the ice...I had no clue this thing was real
@russlehman2070 8 months ago

I didn't know these guys existed until I saw one. I was on a backpack camping trip in a Colorado wilderness area, filling my water bottle from a small creek, when I see a "mouse" (it was a shrew, but mouse was my first impression) swimming by underwater. It took a bit of internet research after I got home to figure out what I had seen.
@nativeoutlaw3181 5 years ago

3 hours wow these little guys need a go fund me page for food!
@artin74 5 years ago

Like Americans. eat every 3 h.
@scottkraemer7186 6 years ago

Nice to see wildlife videos again.
@getdownforthemaintenance6881 5 years ago

So pretty much the mammal equivalent of a hummingbird. Tiny, fast, and needs to eat constantly just to stay alive.
@PrincessCelestia19 5 years ago

I saw the hungry shrew video. I had no idea this kind of shrew existed.
@gainlabs 3 years ago

My God I never knew these guys were so VERSATILE... 🏞️ 🏜️ and 🌊ADAPTABLE😁 My NEW favourite Animal!!!
@DepressionOfMyCat 5 years ago

oh man. that sounds like a very stressful life D:
@bloodqueef4147 2 years ago

Same
@OsirisMalkovich 6 years ago

Adorable
@belialuedke1880 5 years ago

Very good video. :D
@Scypher0th 5 years ago

I WANT ONE!
@JustinAbroad 5 years ago

They only eat insects and fish. I'd let these roam around my yard
@uncledisscary338 6 years ago

Well there you go
@siuniuniu 5 years ago

Where's its eyes ?_?
@QBPhantom 5 years ago

What the heck did it eat??
@garsimmulholland4984 2 years ago

Pestered me so much while fishing stealing my worms