💚 Your most-loved nature posts of 2025: November 💚 The pygmy shrew is out here living life in a constant snack-emergency mode...and honestly, who are we to judge? 🍽️😅 Despite being one of the smallest mammals in Britain, the pygmy shrew is basically a tiny calorie-burning furnace. They have to eat every 2–3 hours just to survive, and here’s the wild bit... they can munch up to 125% of their own body weight in prey every day! Thank you to Dawn, our Volunteering Manager, for capturing this ama

The tiny Pygmy Shrew has the fastest heart rate of any mammal at 1,200 beats per minute – that’s 20 beats per second! With such a fast metabolism, they need to eat three times their own bodyweight in food every single day. Find out more about small mammals on our course on 3 May 2024: https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/whats-on/2024-05-03-introduction-to-small-mammals-03052024 | Sussex Wildlife Trust