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What is the SNAKE SNACK
hungriest
animal?
length, the Burmese python
Although small in stature, the Measuring 4.5 m (15 ft) in
can swallow a whole deer
Eurasian pygmy shrew is big or crocodile in one go. After
eating such huge prey, the
in appetite. This tiny mammal python can survive without
food for a month.
eats 125 per cent of its body
weight in food every day.
An adult
This shrew measures human would
The heart of a pygmy shrew beats 90 mm (3 ⁄2 in) in length have to munch
1
1,200 times a minute to maintain and weighs 3 g ( ⁄8 oz),
1
the shrew’s high metabolism. which is lighter than 387 sandwiches
A human heart rate is 15 times a piece of paper. a day to match
slower, at 80 beats a minute. the shrew.
More than 250 small
arthropods, including
beetles, flies, and spiders, are
eaten by this warm-blooded
hunter every day to provide it
with the energy it needs.
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