Know Your Rodents

All this attention on nose size creates
unrealistic expectations of body image
among female shrew populations.

Thought I'd bring back another old favorite, so heeeeere's "Know Your Rodents"! The Louisville Zoo is home (among other things) to the Elephant Shrew (Elephantulus rufescens), a particularly amusing little creature. When not in a zoo, the shrew can be found in Africa (what you were expecting something more specific?) The shrew's stilt-like legs vault it to a precarious height, where its agile nose probes the leaf-clutter and undergrowth far below, searching for, I dunno, grubs or something. Whatever it is shrews eat. But look how funny!

One might think there's an evolutionary rationale for this shrew's bizarre physiognomy, but then one would be an idiot who hasn't heard that God made all the animals and that Charles Darwin is a big fat joke.