Desert shrews…
(a.) …are blind, but can find their way around by a crude form of echolocation
(b.) …move slowly so as not to attract attention from predators.
(c.) …eat very little and conserve their energy, since the desert yields little food.
(d.) …have such a high metabolism they have to eat constantly to stay alive.
(e.) …dislike it intensely, when hawks refer to them as “dessert shrews.”
(f.) …look like the dog in “Nightmare Before Christmas
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(d.) …have such a high metabolism they have to eat constantly to stay alive.
SOURCE:”Desert Shrew – Notiosorex crawfordi“
http://www.blm.gov/ca/forms/wildlife/details.php?metode=serial_number&search=2564
The Wildlife Trivia of the Week is from the Bureau of Land Management.
