I'm not the best person to tell this tale, because I came into school after all the excitement. When I walked into Ms. McCulley's class, she mischievously told me that she had a surprise for me. Apparently, this little guy was found in the downstairs copy room and caused some great excitement. Ann caught the little thing and brought it upstairs to the science department (you don't know how much I love that you all do this!) and Ms. McCulley and the very excited students went about identifying the little rodent. Turns out it's a shrew - and a little one at that. We suspect that with all the building going on, an opening was made by the workers that allowed it to get in.
By the time I arrived, they had already discovered that a shrew eats 80-90% of it's body weight daily, which it amply demonstrated when it wolfed down abut 10 meal worms. If you go to the Wikipedia link, you'll find out some other interesting facts about this mammal - for instance, it has 10 litters of
By the time I arrived, they had already discovered that a shrew eats 80-90% of it's body weight daily, which it amply demonstrated when it wolfed down abut 10 meal worms. If you go to the Wikipedia link, you'll find out some other interesting facts about this mammal - for instance, it has 10 litters of