Italian Article of the Day

Well this happened today, Monday, December 3, 2018. #Italy is 6 hours ahead right now so it’s past 3am (at the time of writing this post). There was a #shrew that was found on the island of #Tavolara off the coast of #Sardinia. It is the world’s smallest #mammal and it made headlines after being declared #extinct decades prior. Manx shearwaters nest there. The rats were feasting on the #eggs and the chicks. Conservationists dropped poison and other bait in 2012 to eliminate the rats. Eliminating the #rats helped #lizards, #geckos, and #tortoises. Weighing a little less than 2 grams, the Etruscan Shrew can eat about double its mass.

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Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/03/reclaiming-shrew-worlds-tiniest-mammal-rediscovered-italian/

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