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Although big animals eat a lot,
small creatures usually eat
more for their size because they
burn energy quicker. The speed
at which an animal consumes
energy is known as its
metabolic rate. The pygmy
shrew’s is 50 times faster
than an adult human’s,
so to fuel its body the
shrew eats constantly.
An average adult
human weighs
62 kg (137 lb), so
a person eating
125 per cent of their
body weight in
food (as much as
the shrew) would
devour 77.5 kg
(170 lb) a day.
FAST FACTS
A blue whale weighing around Giant pandas eat fibrous Little brown bats can eat up
150 tonnes can eat six tonnes bamboo shoots and leaves to 1,000 mosquitoes an hour,
of krill every day. for up to 16 hours a day. hunting constantly at night.
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